Each entry gives the term in traditional and simplified form, its pinyin, the senses it carries in the classical corpus, the passages where it does real work, and how published translations have rendered it.
huái zǐ
To be pregnant. Chapter 40 turns it into a rule of diagnosis: the body has the illness and yet there is no deviant pulse — the pulse does not testify against the pregnancy.
jué rén cháng mìng
To cut short the long life that was a person's — the sentence chapter 27 passes on the physician who needles without knowing the three regions and nine indicators. It appears twice, closing each of the last two paragraphs, and the second time it is preceded by 釋邪攻正 — releasing the evil and attacking the upright — which is what the cutting consists of. The phrase belongs with 天年 of chapter 1: the life is conceived as an allotted quantity, and the physician's incompetence is measured as a subtraction from it.
tiān guǐ
The reproductive endowment: it arrives at fourteen (二七) and is exhausted at forty-nine (七七). The chapter treats fertility as a measurable substance on a fixed schedule, not as a matter of temperament or conduct.
shèn qì
What drives growth in the seven-year cycles: teeth, hair, and the capacity to conceive. The single most important caution for a new reader is that 腎 here is a system of functions rather than the organ of modern anatomy.
tiān shòu
The span of years heaven allots. Suwen 1 uses it for the case that tests its own count: a man already old who yet has children. His span, Qi Bo says, has passed beyond the measure, his qi and vessels stay open and his kidney qi has something left over — but even so, the sentence that follows says, a man does not go past sixty-four and a woman not past forty-nine, because by then the essence qi of heaven and earth is spent. The exception is real and it is bounded.
zhēn yá
The wisdom teeth, the last teeth to come and the sign that growth has reached its extreme. Suwen 1 names them twice, at twenty-one in the woman's count and at twenty-four in the man's, and both times with the same clause: the wisdom teeth come and growth reaches its extreme. They are the only sign in either count that is the same for both sexes — the counts differ by seven and eight, but the teeth that close growth come to both.
yǒu zǐ
The chapter's reading of a pulse that means a woman is with child: 陰搏陽别，謂之有子 — the yin beats and the yang is apart from it, and that is called 有子. 搏 is the pulse coming up hard under the finger and 别 is its being separated off from the yang; the yin position beats, and the yang does not answer it in the same way. It stands at the head of four verdicts in one short paragraph, and it is the only one that is not bad news: the second is 陰陽虚，腸辟死, the third 陽加於陰謂之汗, the fourth 陰虚陽搏，謂之崩. The pair with 崩 is exact and worth keeping in view — there the yin is empty and the yang beats, here the yin is full and beats — so the two readings sit on opposite sides of one pulse.