カルテ

カルテ · karute · JLPT N1 · noun

record

🏥 カルテ sounds like 'card tea': a clinic's card file of patient notes, from German Karte (card)

Borrowed from German Karte, meaning card or chart. Japanese doctors keep a patient's clinical records on a chart, so the word names the medical record.

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