therapy is a medical term for relieving but not curing.
therapy is a medical term for relieving but not curing.
what is a medical term for relieving but not curing?
therapy
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the classical chinese word "ao" 癆 "consumption; tuberculosis" was the common name in traditional chinese medicine and "fèijiéhé" 肺結核 (lit. "lung knot kernel") "pulmonary tuberculosis" is the modern medical term. "lao" is compounded in names like "xulao" 虛癆 with "empty; void", "láobìng" 癆病 with "sickness", "láozhài" 癆瘵 with "[archaic] sickness", and "feilao" 肺癆 with "lungs". zhang and unschuld explain that the medical term "xulao" 虛癆 "depletion exhaustion" includes infectious and consumptive pathologies, such as "laozhai" 癆瘵 "exhaustion with consumption" or "laozhaichong" 癆瘵蟲 "exhaustion consumption bugs/worms". they retrospectively identify "feilao" 肺癆 "lung exhaustion" and infectious "feilao chuanshi" 肺癆傳尸 "lung exhaustion by corpse [evil] transmission as "consumption/tuberculosis". describing foreign loanwords in early medical terminology, zhang and unschuld note the phonetic similarity between chinese "feixiao" 肺消 (from old chinese "**pʰot-ssew") "lung consumption" and ancient greek "phthisis" "pulmonary tuberculosis".
history of tuberculosis