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胬 is a medical term for abnormal fleshy growths, such as pterygium (a conjunctival overgrowth) or granulation tissue. A phono-semantic compound, it combines the semantic radical 肉 ('flesh') below with the phonetic 奴 above. Its usage is strictly clinical, describing pathological tissue proliferation without general anatomical reference, and it remains a precise diagnostic term in both traditional and modern medicine.
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