疝 (shàn): hernia

Meanings

1 hernia

Characters

疝

shàn

hernia

Examples

他被诊断出患有腹股沟疝，需要手术治疗。

Tā bèi zhěnduàn chū huànyǒu fùgǔgōu shàn, xūyào shǒushù zhìliáo.

He was diagnosed with an inguinal hernia requiring surgical treatment.

医生说这种疝气如果不及时治疗会有风险。

Yīshēng shuō zhèzhǒng shànqì rúguǒ bùjí shí zhìliáo huì yǒu fēngxiǎn.

The doctor said this type of hernia can be risky if not treated promptly.

Tips

usage

疝 alone is the medical character; in everyday speech, hernia is usually called 疝气 (shàn qì). Common types include 腹股沟疝 (inguinal hernia) and 脐疝 (umbilical hernia).

Components

radical

疒 nè

sickness radical

Sickness radical wrapping top-left — a person reclining on a bed. Indexes 疝 in the disease family with 病, 疼, 痒, 疫, 癣. 疝 names a hernia — an internal organ protruding through a weakened body wall — so the radical names the medical category, leaving the inside element to suggest the lumpy shape.

phonetic

山 shān

mountain

Inside 山 supplies the sound — shān shifted to shàn with regular tone change. 山 itself pictures three peaks of a mountain; that 'rising bulge' image fits 疝 with surprising aptness, since a hernia visibly mounds the skin like a small peak. Sound and picture quietly cooperate in this medical compound.