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Chinese symbol for “aneurysm”

动脉瘤
dòng mài liú
Traditional: 動脈瘤
aneurysm

The closest CC-CEDICT match for aneurysm is 动脉瘤 (dòng mài liú), defined as: aneurysm.

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Characters and stroke order

动 dòng
to move, to happen; movement, action
radical 19 ⼒ · 6 strokes
脉 mài
a pulse; arteries, veins; blood vessels
radical 130 ⾁ · 9 strokes
瘤 liú
tumor, lump, goiter
radical 104 ⽧ · 15 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 动脉瘤.

WordPinyinMeaning
活动 (活動)huó dòngto exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
运动 (運動)yùn dòngto move; to exercise
行动 (行動)xíng dòngoperation; action
动物 (動物)dòng wùanimal
推动 (推動)tuī dòngto push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to
劳动 (勞動)láo dòngwork; toil
山脉 (山脈)shān màimountain range; 条 (tiáo)
脉冲 (脈衝)mài chōngpulse (physics)
肿瘤 (腫瘤)zhǒng liútumor

See also: Japanese symbol for “aneurysm”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.