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Rock
岩 〔岩〕yán
Traditional Rockand Modern Cancer |
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Rock,the literal translation of 岩 yán, is a traditional disease name denote hard lesions. The modern biomedical Chinese term for cancer is 癌, pronounced as yán or ái appears to have derived from this. |
A hard uneven swelling on the body's surface, of fixed location, and unassociated with change in skin color. After it has ruptured, it appears like a pomegranate with the skin peeling away, purple in color, giving off a malign odor, acutely painfuland does not easily heal.
Biomedical correspondence: Various kinds of carcinoma.
See tongue mushroom; cocoon lip; loss-of-luxuriance; mammary rock; kidney rock.
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