損傷

• 読み: そんしょう
• ローマ字: sonshou
• 漢字の分解: 損 (son) — loss, damage; 傷 (shou) — wound, injury
• 発音: /soɴ.ɕoː/

意味

Damage; injury; impairment; lesion. Physical harm to the body or an organ, ranging from minor to severe.

A formal noun (also suru-verb: 損傷する/を受ける) used in medical, legal, and engineering contexts. In medicine it describes structural injury to tissues, organs, or nerves, such as 脊髄損傷 (spinal cord injury) or 肝臓損傷 (liver damage). More clinical and precise than 怪我 (injury) and often implies severity or permanence.

例文

1. 交通事故で脊髄に深刻な損傷を負い、歩行困難となった。
2. 検査の結果、肝臓に軽度の損傷が見られた。
3. スポーツ選手が靭帯に損傷を受け、半年間の休場を余儀なくされた。

使い方ガイド

場面: medicine, surgery, sports medicine, injury, legal

トーン: clinical, serious

起源と歴史

Sino-Japanese compound: 損 (son) means loss or damage, and 傷 (shou) means wound or injury. Both characters convey harm, making the compound emphatic. Widely used in classical Chinese texts and adopted into formal Japanese medical terminology.

文化的背景

時代: Classical-Modern

世代: Adult

社会的背景: Universal