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phthisis

noun

1 phthisis

Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body.

synonyms: consumption, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague.

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more

Dutch: tering


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