The patient suddenly suffered a syncope and was rushed in for treatment.
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usage
Modern medical use: 厥 means to faint, in 昏厥 and 晕厥 (syncope). It also has a classical use as a possessive pronoun ('his/their'), seen in old texts but not in speech today.
The cliff radical, an overhanging rock face. It is the indexing radical here; the modern fainting meaning developed through phonetic borrowing rather than from the cliff image itself.
phonetic
欮jué
phonetic element (panting/gasping graph)
The element under the cliff supplies the sound jué. It pictures gasping breath, a faint hint at the loss of breath when one passes out, but it functions chiefly as the pronunciation marker.
