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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A disease characterized by the wasting away or atrophy of the body or a part of the body.
  2. n. Tuberculosis of the lungs. No longer in scientific use.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A disease of the lungs, characterized by progressive consolidation of pulmonary tissue, with breaking down and the formation of cavities. This is so extensively, if not exclusively, pulmonary tuberculosis that the two names are often considered as equivalent. Also called consumption.

Wiktionary

  1. n. archaic An atrophy of the body or part of the body, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Etymologies

  1. From Latin phthisis, from Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthisis, "consumption, decline, wasting away"), from φθίω (phthiō, "I waste away"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin, from Greek, from phthinein, to waste away. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. tuberculosis
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  3. dysentery
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  1. pox
  2. cocci
  3. jaundice
  4. superheroesitn
  1. hemorrhoids
  2. bronchi
  3. salivation
  4. persuaders
  1. ageing
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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. tisic
  2. consumption
  3. tisis
  4. phthisical
  5. phthisic
  6. marasmus
  7. phthinode
  1. phthinoid
  2. phthisiogenetic
  3. phthisiotherapeutic
  4. phthisiotherapeutist
  5. phthisiotherapy
  6. benzosol
  7. night-sweat
  1. nummular
  2. phosphoridrosis
  3. phthisiology
  4. phthisipneumonia
  5. pleurogenic
  6. pneumonophthisis
  7. aseptolin
  1. anthracosis
  2. antiphthisic
  3. bronchiectasis
  4. galactozyme
  5. lung-woe
  6. phthisicky
  7. phthisis
  1. tubercle
  2. tuberculosis
  3. alcornoque
  4. consumptive
  5. germ
  6. granulation
  7. hectic
  1. creosine
  2. fluoroformol

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  • knitandpurl "Sick with phthisis in this drizzling mist, I limp, sniffling, spitting bilic spit, itching livid skin (skin which is tingling with stinging pinpricks)."
    Eunoia by Christian Bök (upgraded edition), p 55 May 22, 2010

  • chained_bear "They were deep in two extraordinary, unaccountable and lasting cases of remission in phthisis and tetraplegia when the chief huntsman came to say that Omar Pasha would now receive them."
    --P. O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 190 Mar 25, 2008

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