cất cơn

Thân thiện

Sau khi uống thuốc, cơn sốt của bệnh nhân đã cất cơn.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • (Medical) To subside, to abate: Used specifically to describe the cessation or reduction in intensity of a periodic symptom, most commonly a fever fit or paroxysm.
   • To stop (an attack): Refers to the ending of a sudden, recurrent episode of an illness or symptom.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Sau khi uống thuốc, cơn sốt của bệnh nhân đã cất cơn. (After taking medicine, the patient's fever fit abated.)
  • Bác sĩ nói cơn đau sẽ cất cơn trong vài giờ tới. (The doctor said the pain attack would subside in the next few hours.)

Advanced Usage

• This term is highly specialized and is almost exclusively used in a medical or symptomatic context. It is not used for general cessation (e.g., rain stopping, noise ceasing).
• It often implies a temporary respite within a cyclical condition, not necessarily a permanent cure.

Variants and Related Words

• Cơn: (Noun) Fit, attack, paroxysm. The base noun referring to the sudden onset of a symptom (e.g., - fever fit, - coughing fit).
• Hạ cơn: A less common variant with a similar meaning of reducing in intensity.
• Dứt cơn: To stop completely (of a fit). Can imply a more final cessation than .

Synonyms

• Giảm bớt: To lessen, to reduce (more general, not specific to medical fits).
• Dịu đi: To ease, to calm down (can be used for symptoms like pain).
• Ngưng: To stop, to cease (general term).

Related Phrases (Collocations)

• Cất cơn sốt: For a fever to break/to abate.
  • Thuốc hạ sốt giúp cất cơn sốt nhanh chóng. (Fever reducers help abate the fever quickly.)
• Cất cơn đau: For a pain attack to subside.
• Cất cơn ho: For a coughing fit to stop.

Notes

• "Cất cơn" is a formal and technical term primarily found in medical instructions, diagnoses, or traditional descriptions of illness. In everyday spoken language, people might use more general terms like (to reduce fever) or (to get better) instead.
• The word "cất" here does not carry its common meaning of "to store" or "to lift." It is a fixed component of this medical terminology.

Học thuật

1. (y học) Abate (said of a fit of fever)