瘰るい癧れき

noun

scrofula

Historical medical term for tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis; now largely replaced by modern clinical terminology.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの医い学がく書しょには「瘰るい癧れき」という病びょう名めいが記しるされている。

  The disease name '瘰癧' is recorded in medical texts from the Edo period.