发病 fābìng to occur
(of an illness) to occur; (of a person) to get sick; to fall ill; onset (of a medical condition)
How to remember 发病: 发 send out + 病 disease = to occur.
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- The onset of illness - for a disease to break out, or a person to fall ill - 发病率 (fābìnglǜ) incidence rate, 突然发病 (tūrán fābìng) suddenly fall ill.
- Focuses on the moment/fact of a condition manifesting, common in medical statistics.
- Contrast 生病 (shēngbìng, be/get sick in general); 发病 is more clinical, about disease onset.