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Phthisis

//ˈ(f)θaɪsɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An atrophy of the body or part of the body, especially pulmonary tuberculosis. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "For some months to my becoming acquainted with him, his physicians had declared him in a confirmed phthisis. It was his custom, indeed, to speak calmly of his approaching dissolution, as a matter neither to be avoided nor regretted."

  2. 2
    involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin phthisis, from Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “consumption, decline, wasting away”), from φθίω (phthíō, “I waste away”).

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