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瘕 combines the sickness radical 疒, which surrounds the top and left sides to categorize the character as a medical term, with the phonetic component 叚 on the right. Its semantic field covers internal pathologies, historically referring to abdominal lumps, intestinal disorders, and respiratory conditions such as asthma. It is used strictly in traditional medical terminology to denote chronic or obstructive ailments of the internal organs. In this way, the outer radical establishes the meaning while the inner component indicates the pronunciation.
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