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Meanings of phthisis in English
Portuguese
tuberculose Catalan
tisi 
Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body.
Synonyms
Examples for "consumption"
Examples for "consumption"
1
Anthropometric data, past history including alcohol consumption, and associated diseases were registered.
2
The company has said it had reserves equal to 40 days' consumption.
3
Red meat consumption was associated with increased stroke risk, particularly ischemic events.
4
There's also the question of Windows 7's power consumption on a tablet.
5
We therefore urge the public to continue assisting us in managing consumption.
1
Objective: To estimate the population prevalence of active pulmonary tuberculosis in Gambia.
2
Univariable meta-regression indicated efficacy against pulmonary tuberculosis varied according to 3 characteristics.
3
He had a past history of pulmonary tuberculosis, 10 years ago.
4
He was seen in the hospital and has been diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis.
5
Among his discoveries is that of the contagiousness of pulmonary tuberculosis.
1
The wasting disease made its appearance, and the pale form bowed beneath it.
2
The human version of the brain- wasting disease, called Creutzfeldt-Jakob, can 50 years to gestate.
3
He has used a wheelchair since Friedreich's ataxia, a muscle- wasting disease, made walking impossible.
4
He looked like the terminal stages of some wasting disease.
5
Alex looked at Acastus and said, almost reverently, He's dying of a wasting disease.
1
It was the scar of the white plague, the sign-manual of death.
2
On her frail beauty was stamped the sign of the white plague.
3
It's the frail ones who are carried off by the white plague.
4
The white plague permitted few native women to become old.
5
What wonder the white plague is always with us?
Usage of phthisis in English
1
The air is fatal to phthisis, as it is also in Australia.
2
Chopin's phthisis -which left him weighing less than one hundred pounds.
3
Janamejaya said, For what reason was the adorable Soma afflicted with phthisis?
4
Case XIII, nephritis and phthisis, belongs also in the renal group.
5
On the contrary, it inevitably produces laryngeal phthisis after a very short time.
6
Nine eyes developed phthisis, seven of which were enucleated during the follow up.
7
Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis is there.
8
Afflicted with phthisis, Sasin began to waste away day by day.
9
Was this, then, some special case of phthisis complicated by neurosis?
10
Assailed by phthisis in this way, Shoma came to Daksha.
11
The reply was that phthisis was often accompanied by them.
12
He could hear nothing at all, that woman could never have suffered from phthisis.
13
Her hereditary nervousness, her asthma, aggravated by cloister life, had probably turned into phthisis.
14
The question remains, will not bad housing cause a greater liability to fatal phthisis?
15
The cause of her death was given as phthisis due to her emaciated condition.
16
A still more doubtful claim may be made concerning the relation of euphoria to phthisis.
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