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発症 (はっしょう) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

発はっ症しょう

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Meanings

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noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb, intransitive verb

onset of illness; development of a condition; appearance of symptoms

medicine

Medical term used as a noun or with する. It can be intransitive, as in 発症する, or transitive with a disease as the object, as in 糖尿病を発症する.

感かん染せんしてから数すう日じつで発はっ症しょうすることが多おおい。
Symptoms often appear a few days after infection.

彼かれは三さん十じゅう代だいで糖とう尿にょう病びょうを発はっ症しょうした。

He developed diabetes in his thirties.

発はっ症しょう初しょ期きには軽かるい発はつ熱ねつだけの場ば合あいもある。

In the early stage after onset, there may be only a slight fever.

Kanji

発departure, discharge, publish
症symptoms, illness

Similar words

発はつ病びょう
Also means the onset of an illness; 発症 more strongly focuses on symptoms or a condition becoming clinically apparent.
罹り患かん
Means being affected by or contracting a disease, and is more formal; it does not necessarily focus on when symptoms appear.
症しょう状じょう
Means the symptoms themselves, not their onset or development.

Etymology

A Sino-Japanese compound of 発, associated with arising or beginning, and 症, associated with illness or symptoms; together it refers to an illness or symptoms becoming manifest.