Review of Terms
Read the medical terms out loud and translate them into Chinese in the spaces provided. To confirm your answers, you may refer to WHO International Standard Terminologies on Traditional Medicine in the Western Pacific Region (website: http://www.pharmnet.com.cn/tcm/dict/), Paradigm Online TCM Dictionary by Nigel Wiseman (website: http://www.paradigm-pubs.com/TermList), and International Standard Chinese-English Basic Nomenclature of Chinese Medicine by WFCMS.
| 1. | yang debilitation ____ |
any pathological change marked by yang lower than the normal level due to deficiency of yang of the human body |
| 2. | liver opens at the eyes ____ |
the physiological condition and pathological change of the liver is usually reflected in the eyes |
| 3. | ascendant hyperactivity of liver yang ____ |
a pathological change in which deficient liver-kidney yin lets liver yang get out of control and stir upward |
| 4. | yin exuberance ____ |
a pathological state in which yin pathogen* is exuberant while the healthy qi has not been damaged |