Hypertext Webster Gateway: "phthisis"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Phthisis \Phthi"sis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to pass or waste
away: cf. F. phthisie.] (Med.)
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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
phthisis
n : involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
[syn: {pulmonary tuberculosis}, {consumption}, {wasting
disease}, {white plague}]
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