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浮腫

简浮肿 · 繁浮腫

Mandarin · pinyin fú zhǒng

(nonspecialist term for 水腫 shuǐ zhǒng) to suffer from edema; swollen; bloated; puffy

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浮: fú · to float, drift, waft; to exceed; superfluous
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肿: zhǒng · swell; swollen; swelling

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2–3 · fu2 zhong3

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verb

(medicine) to have edema; to have dropsy

noun

(medicine, traditional Chinese medicine) oedema

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