white plague

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Tuberculosis, especially of the lungs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.

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• noun an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)
• noun involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body