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難病 (nanbyou) Japanese meaning: intractable disease | Kotomora
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年ねん
闘たたか
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て
いる
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He has been battling an intractable disease for many years.
A cure for the intractable disease has not yet been established.
Usage patterns 〈 難なん 病びょう 〉 を 患わずら う to suffer from an intractable disease
He has suffered from an intractable disease since he was a young child.
〈 難なん 病びょう 〉 と 闘たたか う to fight against an intractable disease
She kept attending university while fighting her intractable disease.
〈 難なん 病びょう 〉 を 克こく 服ふく する to overcome an intractable disease
〈 難なん 病びょう 〉 指し 定てい を 受う ける to receive official designation as an intractable disease
This disease received official designation as an intractable disease last year.
Kanji 難 difficult, impossible, trouble Related words 重病 means any serious illness, while 難病 specifically denotes a disease that is hard to treat or cure.
不治の病 is a literary or dramatic way to say an incurable disease, while 難病 is the standard medical and administrative term.
業病 is an old-fashioned, literary term implying an incurable disease seen as karmic punishment, whereas 難病 is neutral and clinical.
難病 emphasizes that a disease is hard to cure or treat, while 奇病 emphasizes that it is strange, mysterious, or rarely seen.
難病 specifically means an intractable or rare, often chronic and incurable disease, whereas 大病 just means any serious or life-threatening illness.
Etymology Compound of 難 (difficult) and 病 (disease). The reading なんびょう is the standard on'yomi combination.
More patients are overcoming intractable diseases thanks to new treatments.
