阿爾茨海默氏症

Alzheimer's disease / senile dementia

abbr. for Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4]

prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4]

flatter

(literary) to flatter; to curry favor with

surname Hai

ocean / sea / CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4] / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous

disease / illness

abdominal tumor / bowel obstruction / (fig.) sticking point

clan name / maiden name

see 月氏[Yue4 zhi1] and 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]

silent / to write from memory

Caltrop or puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris) / to thatch (a roof)

thus / so / like that / you / thou

Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), German psychiatrist and neuropathologist