孤獨症

Chinese

disease; illness; indication or sign of disease
trad. (孤獨症) 孤獨
simp. (孤独症) 孤独

Etymology

Coined by psychiatrists in Mainland China in the 1950s; first used in 1963 Chinese translation of the book Clinical Psychiatry (Yu, 2017).

Pronunciation


Noun

孤獨症

  1. autism (neurological disorder) [from 1950s]

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