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phthisiology Med.|fθ-, θɪzɪˈɒlədʒɪ| [f. phthisi-s + -ology.] The science or study of phthisis, or a treatise thereon. Hence phthisioˈlogical a.; phthisiˈologist, a specialist in phthisiology.
1842Dunglison Med. Lex., Phthisiology, a treatise on phthisis. 1858in Mayne Expos. Lex. 1893Syd. Soc. Lex., Phthisiology, the scientific study of Phthisis. 1913Q. Jrnl. Med. VI. 259 Artificial pneumothorax has become the topic of the day in phthisiological literature. 1928Amer. Rev. Tuberculosis XVIII. 110 The general conclusions..were not accepted at once by phthisiologists. 1946H. T. Hyman Integrated Pract. Med. III. civ. 2208 The indications for inducing an artificial pneumothorax are best discussed by the practitioner with the consultant phthisiologist. 1947Ibid. IV. clxxxii. 3901 In the larger medical communities and fully staffed institutions, internal medicine is subdivided... Thus there are established departments of gastro-enterology, hematology,..phthisiology, metabolism, [etc.]. 1953Tubercle XXXIV. 237/1 It is most deplorable that phthisiologists ever applied and accepted so wrong and unfitting a term [sc. therapeutic ‘collapse’] to a condition which in fact is no ‘collapse’ at all. 1957F. R. G. Heaf Symposium of Tuberculosis p. xv, The amount of disablement caused by bone and joint tuberculosis in overseas countries is very great, so the chapter dealing with this subject should be of value to the general physician and surgeon, as well as the specialist in phthisiology. |