特とく定てい疾しっ患かん

noun

specified intractable diseases; designated incurable diseases

A legal/medical term for diseases officially designated by the Japanese government as having unknown causes, no established treatment, and serious long-term consequences. Often used in the context of public healthcare support.

• 特とく定てい疾しっ患かんに指し定ていされると、医い療りょう費ひの助じょ成せいを受うけられる場ば合あいがある。

  If a disease is designated as a specified intractable disease, you may be eligible for medical expense subsidies.

• 難なん病びょうのうち、一いっ定ていの基き準じゅんを満みたすものが特とく定てい疾しっ患かんとして扱あつかわれる。

  Among intractable diseases, those meeting certain criteria are treated as specified intractable diseases.