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Meanings of wasting disease in English

Portuguese
tuberculose
Catalan
tisi
Wikidata

Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body.

        tuberculose
        Usage of wasting disease in English
        1
        The wasting disease made its appearance, and the pale form bowed beneath it.
        Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission
        2
        The human version of the brain- wasting disease, called Creutzfeldt-Jakob, can 50 years to gestate.
        Wired
        3
        He has used a wheelchair since Friedreich's ataxia, a muscle- wasting disease, made walking impossible.
        The Guardian
        4
        He looked like the terminal stages of some wasting disease.
        Junky
        5
        Alex looked at Acastus and said, almost reverently, He's dying of a wasting disease.
        Book Three: The Final Exodus
        6
        Following the split, Smith suffered from a mysterious wasting disease, which caused alarming weight loss.
        The Irish Times
        7
        Excess urine had been associated with a wasting disease.
        Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III
        8
        Rickets, or wasting disease (marasmus) and poor hygienic surroundings makes the outlook less favorable.
        Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
        9
        In exhausting or wasting disease, the weight of the gland sinks much more quickly than other glands.
        The Glands Regulating Personality / A Study of the Glands of Int...
        10
        Still, the results helped bolster earlier positive results showing the drug helps patients with the brain- wasting disease.
        Reuters
        11
        Ruth had been dead a bit more than a year, the victim of some mysterious wasting disease.
        Depraved
        12
        Raban suffered from asthma and the wasting disease known as coeliac, which restricted him in the playground.
        The Guardian
        13
        Muscular dystrophy is a progressive, lethal wasting disease characterized by repetitive cycles of myofiber degeneration and regeneration.
        Pubmed
        14
        The wasting disease had firm hold upon him; day by day it consumed his flesh, darkened his mind.
        In the Year of Jubilee
        15
        These killers, now, all local, were themselves victims of this wasting disease, with milky eyes and withered limbs.
        Orb Sceptre Throne
        16
        Her son, who has a muscle wasting disease, was limping up a muddy path on crutches on Monday.
        The Guardian
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        Translations for wasting disease
        Portuguese
        tuberculose
        Wasting disease across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Less common