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Definition of phthisis in English: phthisisnoun ˈtʌɪsɪsˈ(f)θʌɪsɪs mass nounMedicine archaic Pulmonary tuberculosis or a similar progressive wasting disease. Example sentencesExamples - Tuberculosis, first known as phthisis or consumption, has been recognized as a leading cause of American deaths for as long as records have been kept.
- In fact he had died there from phthisis on 9 December 1886: the death certificate describes him as a ‘musician’.
- Several other events have acted to reignite the old problem known as phthisis, consumption, or the white plague (named for the pallor it causes).
- He learned to recognize pneumonia, bronchiectasis, pleurisy, emphysema, pneumothorax, phthisis, and other lung diseases from the sounds he heard with his stethoscope.
- Death rates from silicosis, miners' phthisis, and tubercular diseases were very high on the Rand.
Synonyms thinness, boniness, scrawniness, skinniness, scragginess
Derivatives adjective (f)ˈθɪzɪk Medicine archaic It was said that the urine of phthisic patients is "high coloured and deposits a brawny red sediment." Example sentencesExamples - Shelleys tribute expressed what would become the central metaphor of consumption in the 19th century, the idea that the phthisic body is consumed from within by its passions.
adjective Medicine archaic The sputum of phthisical patients is the vehicle by which the tubercle gains access to the air. Example sentencesExamples - If there be a special or specific hereditary predisposition - we should find the children of such parents phthisical in greater proportion than the children of parents whose debility arises from other causes.
Origin Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek, from phthinein 'to decay'. Definition of phthisis in US English: phthisisnoun Medicine archaic Pulmonary tuberculosis or a similar progressive systemic disease. Example sentencesExamples - Death rates from silicosis, miners' phthisis, and tubercular diseases were very high on the Rand.
- In fact he had died there from phthisis on 9 December 1886: the death certificate describes him as a ‘musician’.
- Tuberculosis, first known as phthisis or consumption, has been recognized as a leading cause of American deaths for as long as records have been kept.
- He learned to recognize pneumonia, bronchiectasis, pleurisy, emphysema, pneumothorax, phthisis, and other lung diseases from the sounds he heard with his stethoscope.
- Several other events have acted to reignite the old problem known as phthisis, consumption, or the white plague (named for the pallor it causes).
Synonyms thinness, boniness, scrawniness, skinniness, scragginess
Origin Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek, from phthinein ‘to decay’. |