肺はいを病やむ

expression, godan verb (-mu)

suffer from tuberculosis

A somewhat literary or old-fashioned expression for having tuberculosis. In modern conversation, 結核にかかる or 肺結核になる is more common.

• 彼かれは若わかい頃ころに肺はいを病やんで、長ながく療りょう養よう所じょで過すごした。

  He suffered from tuberculosis when he was young and spent a long time in a sanatorium.