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Phthisis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A disease characterized by the wasting away or atrophy of the body or a part of the body.

n. Tuberculosis of the lungs. No longer in scientific use.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An atrophy of the body or part of the body, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See consumption.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A disease of the lungs, characterized by progressive consolidation of pulmonary tissue, with breaking down and the formation of cavities.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Word Usage

"We were accused and convicted of pulmonary phthisis, which is equivalent to the plague in the prejudices regarding contagion entertained by Spanish physicians."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

tuberculosis Tb

Cross Reference

mammary phthisis abdominal phthisis phthisis bulbi phthisis florida stonecutters' phthisis

Variant

consumption

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

hemoptysis enteritis catarrh reinnervation septicemia