一切經音義 33.23

33.23

癈瘕 (crippling debility and visceral masses; the first character is 甫吠反; Zheng [Xuan's] commentary on the Book of Rites states that 癈 means being disabled from human affairs; the Shuowen jiezi states that 癈 means an intractable chronic illness; it takes the 'sickness' (疒) radical with 發 as phonetic; the second character is 赫加反; Zheng [Xuan's] supplementary notes to the Classic of Poetry states that 瘕 means a disease; Guo [Pu's] commentary on the Shanhaijing states that 瘕 is a lung disease; the Shuowen jiezi states that it takes the 'sickness' (疒) radical with 叚 as phonetic).