
(Only half-wasei eigo):
人間ドック ...
A lot of people know ドック to be a reference to "doc," which is short for doctor!
It is actually "dock" and it comes from the analogy with a boat that docks for maintenance and repairs before heading out on its next voyage.
To those that haven't even heard of it ... Ningen Dock is a annual health checkup enforced to some extent by law, on companiesi in Japan, so all employees have atleast one checkup a year.
... nicked this off the net @ http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.lang.japan/2005-07/msg00736.html
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