検診

• 読み: けんしん
• ローマ字: kenshin
• 漢字の分解: 検 (ken) — inspect, examine, check; 診 (shin) — diagnose, examine medically
• 発音: /ke.n.ɕi.ɴ/

意味

Medical examination; health screening; a check-up conducted to detect or prevent illness.

Covers a range of health-screening activities from routine annual check-ups (定期検診) to disease-specific screenings such as cancer screening (がん検診). Differs from 診察 (examination of a patient's specific complaint) in that 検診 implies systematic, preventive screening. Local governments in Japan actively organise and subsidise various screening programmes for residents.

例文

1. 市が実施する乳がん検診を毎年受けるよう、医師に勧められた。
2. 定期検診で血糖値の異常が見つかり、精密検査を受けることになった。
3. 会社の健康診断と個人の検診を合わせて受けると安心だ。

使い方ガイド

場面: medicine, public health, preventive care, workplace health, cancer screening

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

Compound of 検 (ken, inspect/examine) and 診 (shin, diagnose/examine a patient). Together they convey the systematic inspection and examination for health conditions.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: General