标本同治
biāo​běn​tóng​zhì

to treat both root cause and symptoms

  • created sense approved 标本同治/標本同治 · biāo​běn​tóng​zhì · to treat both root cause and symptoms — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    标本同治 / 標本同治

    biāo​běn​tóng​zhì

    to treat both root cause and symptoms

    in Chinese medicine, treat both the symptoms and the underlying cause of a disease simultaneously

    标本 (literal) → 标本/標本 · biāo​běn · surface and root 同 (literal) → 同 · tóng · together 治 (literal) → 治 · zhì · to treat

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense

  • created sense approved 标本同治/標本同治 · biāo​běn​tóng​zhì · to address both root and branch — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    标本同治 / 標本同治

    biāo​běn​tóng​zhì

    to address both root and branch

    deal with both the fundamental cause of a problem and its surface manifestations at the same time

    标本 (literal) → 标本/標本 · biāo​běn · surface and root 同 (literal) → 同 · tóng · together 治 (literal) → 治 · zhì · to treat

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense