Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body.
An addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)
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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 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.
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?
6 New drugs developed during the 20th century turned the " white plague " into a curable disease.
7 Carol thought at first they were brothers, and so they were,-brothersin the grip of the great white plague .
8 Will not destitution and its attendant conditions increase the probability that a given individual will succumb to the white plague ?
9 The White Plague had come to the home in Edinburgh and taken away his two brothers.
10 How much longer will this outrage on the unfortunate victims of the White Plague be tolerated?
11 The universal dissemination of this knowledge will do much to rob the "Great White Plague " of its terrors.
12 Even little children can help to fight and kill this "Great White Plague , " and I'll tell you how.
13 The lecturer talked about the dread disease called the White Plague , which every year carried off so many people in Sweden.
14 There is an effort now to rouse our government to fight the White Plague , in people as well as in cattle.
15 The account of the Black Death gives excellent occasion for a brief discussion of modern sanitation and the war on the White Plague .
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This collocation consists of: Translations for white plague