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noun
An atrophy of the body or part of the body, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, wasting disease, white plague
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tuberculosis, TB, T.B.
History
Borrowed from Latin phthisis, from Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “consumption, decline, wasting away”), from φθίω (phthíō, “to waste away”).
Across languages
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
