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瘰 (luǒ) is a phono-semantic compound in the medical vocabulary of traditional Chinese medicine. It combines the sickness radical 疒 (chuáng) as the semantic indicator of disease with the phonetic component 累 (lèi, meaning 'tired' or 'accumulated'). Almost always found in the compound 瘰疬 (luǒlì), it denotes scrofula, chronic swelling of neck lymph nodes, often associated with tuberculosis. The character's usage is strictly limited to this medical context, having no figurative or extended meanings.
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