1) Activity 2) Bodily function 3) Bodily process 4) Body process 5) Drinking 6) French word used in English 7) Ingestion 8) Intake 9) Sociological terminology 10) The act of eating 11) Uptake
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1) Contraction 2) Deglutition 3) Destruction 4) Drinking 5) Eating 6) Expenditure 7) Feeding 8) Imbibing 9) Ingestion 10) Intake 11) Phthisis 12) Suck 13) Sucking 14) Suctorial 15) Tuberculosis 16) Uptake 17) Use 18) Waste
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An old term for pulmonary tuberculosis, also called marasmus in the mid-nineteenth century, Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that is usually caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infection may result from inhalation of minute droplets of infected sputum which are given off by coughing, talking, or sneezing. Tuberculosis most often...
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• (n.) The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction. • (n.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. • (n.) The state or pr...
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[Noun] The act of using, eating or drinking something.
Example: His daily consumption of alcohol was 5 units.
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Expenditure by households on goods and services which satisfy current wants.
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1. The using up of something, especially the rate at which it is used. ... 2. Obsolete term for a wasting of the tissues of the body, usually tuberculous. ... Origin: L. Con-sumo, pp. -sumptus, to take up wholly, use up, waste ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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The use of a product or service by an end user until it has no remaining value. :: Food Safety Promotion Board (8th Edition)
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(kәn-sump´shәn) the act of consuming, or the process of being consumed. a wasting away of the body. oxygen consumption the amount of oxygen consumed by the tissues of the body, usually measured as the oxygen uptake in the lung. The normal value is 250 mL...
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A wasting away of the body; formerly applied especially to pulmonary tuberculosis
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A wasting away of the body, especially from pulmonary tuberculosis
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Con·sump'tion noun [ Latin consumptio : confer French consomption .] 1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction. « Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption .
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Consumption: An old and once common term for wasting away of the body, particularly from pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Other old TB terms include the King's evil or scrofula (TB of the lymph nodes in the neck) and Pott's disease (TB of the spine). The World Health Organization (WHO) in 'L'histoire de la tuberculose' notes that: 'In 460 BC Hippocrate...
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A wasting away of the body; formerly applied especially to pulmonary tuberculosis. Synonyms marasmus (in the mid-nineteenth century), phthisis.
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Consumption, or Phthisis was a name formerly given for various diseases known by emaciation (serious loss of weight), debility, cough, hectic fever, and purulent expectoration, particularly tuberculosis which was unknown at the time. The predisposing causes were believed to be very variable, and around 1900 were reliably listed as: hereditary taint...
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archaic or obsolete terms > Medical: Wasting away of the body especially from pulmonary disease.
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'a wasting away of the body; formerly applied especially to pulmonary tuberculosis, caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In physick, a waste of muscular flesh. It is frequently attended by a hectick fever and is divided by physicians into several kinds, according to the variety of its causes. Synonyms: marasmus (in the mid-nineteenth...
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consumption 1. The action or fact of consuming or destroying; destruction. 2. The dissipation of moisture by evaporation. 3. Wasting of the body by disease; a wasting disease; now applied specifically to pulmonary consumption or phthisis. 4. Wasteful expenditure, waste. 5. The using up of material, the use of anything as food, or for the support of...
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[Wuthering Heights] a wasting away of the body, most likely tuberculosis.
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intake noun the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
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using up noun the act of consuming something
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(economics) In economics, the purchase of goods and services for final use, as opposed to providing for future production
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Consumption, in economics, is the way that consumers and markets exchange, use, and destroy goods and services.
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the act of using something up
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[Literary terms] a lung disease involving progressive wasting of the body
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