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增生

zēng shēng

2-character word

What 增生 means

1. medicinehyperplasia
2. a scholar studying for the Ming dynasty imperial examinations who did not make the quota for support in the form of a monthly allowance of rice that students who made the quota received (abbr. for {增广生员|zēng guǎng shēng yuán})

The characters in 增生

• 增zēng(bound form) to increase; to augment; to add to
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Words containing 增生

• 骨质增生gǔ zhì zēng shēng(medicine) hyperostosis
• 骨髓增生异常综合征gǔ suǐ zēng shēng yì cháng zōng hé zhēngmyelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)