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PHTHISIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
Synonyms:
consumption; phthisis; pulmonary tuberculosis; wasting disease; white plague
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("phthisis" is a kind of...):
T.B.; TB; tuberculosis (infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages))
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