血ちの道みち

noun

assorted female medical disorders; women's ailments

Traditional term for a range of gynecological or menstrual-related disorders, used in pre-modern Japanese medicine. Not a modern clinical term.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの医い学がく書しょには「血ちの道みち」という言こと葉ばがよく出でてくる。

  The term 'chi no michi' appears frequently in Edo-period medical texts.

noun

blood vessels

Rare, literal meaning referring to blood vessels. In modern Japanese, 血管 (けっかん) is the standard term.

• 「血ちの道みち」を文も字じ通どおりに解かい釈しゃくすると血けっ管かんを指さすこともあるが、現げん代だいではほとんど使つかわれない。

  Taken literally, 'chi no michi' can refer to blood vessels, but it is hardly used in modern Japanese.