Look up: phthisis

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   phthisis
   Latin, meaning: consumption, tuberculosus.
   Found on http://archives.nd.edu/ppp.htm
   
   
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   Phthisis
   Literally, means a wasting disease but almost invariably will mean pulmonary tuberculosis - Any debilitating lung or throat affections; a severe cough; asthma
   Found on http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/Arc
   
   
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   Phthisis
   Phthisis: A good trivia or crossword item. An over-consonanted Greek word meaning 'a dwindling or wasting away.' Pronounced TIE-sis. Phthisis is an archaic name for tuberculosis. A person afflicted with tuberculosis in the old days was destined to dwindle and waste away like Mimi, the heroine of Puccini's 1896 opera 'La Bohème.' The tongue-twisting ...
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   Phthisis
   Phthi'sis noun [ Latin , from Greek ..., from ... to pass or waste away: confer French phthisie .] (Medicine) 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 . Fibroid phthisis . See under Fibroid .
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/79
   
   
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   phthisis
   (thi´sis) (ti´sis) wasting of the body. phthisis bulbi shrinkage of the eyeball.
   Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns
   
   
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   Phthisis
   • (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.
   Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
   
   
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   phthisis
   phthisis, phthisic 1. A disease characterized by the wasting away or atrophy of the body or a part of the body. 2. A wasting disease; especially, pulmonary tuberculosis of the lungs. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption.
   Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf