淋巴瘤

línbāliú
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 lymphoma
  2. 2 cancer of the lymphatic system

Examples

Yīshēng zhěnduàn tā déle línbāliú.
The doctor diagnosed him with lymphoma.
Línbāliú tōngcháng fēnwéi Huòqíjīn hé fēi Huòqíjīn liǎng dà lèi.
Lymphomas are usually classified into Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin types.

Tips

memory
淋巴 (línbā) is itself a phono-semantic loan for "lymph" (the just lends sound). Add (liú, "tumor") and you get "lymph-tumor". The same ending appears in 肿瘤 zhǒngliú (tumor), 脑瘤 nǎoliú (brain tumor).

Stroke Order

lín
liú