also: おんえき
fever epidemic; pestilence
Rare historical medical term for a widespread febrile disease; not used in modern clinical Japanese.
Old documents record 'fever epidemic outbreak'.
Rare kanji spelling for a historical medical term; the reading うんえき is the primary reading.
Alternate reading; less common than うんえき.
The kanji 瘟 (fever/epidemic) and 疫 (epidemic) combine to form a Sino-Japanese compound meaning 'fever epidemic'. The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the term is now rare.