Crossword-Solution: PHTHISIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phthisis | n. | A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption. |
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| pulmonary tuberculosis | 2 answers |
| tuberculosis | 2 answers |
| wasting disease | 2 answers |
| white plague | 4 answers |
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The old plural of Eye.
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Sentences with PHTHISIS (5)
The elder woman gave the family history, father and mother had died of phthisis, a brother and a sister, these two were the only ones left.
Early in the year of my visit, for example, or late the year before, a first case of phthisis appeared in a household of seventeen persons, and by the month of August, when the tale was told me, one soul survived, and that was a boy who had been absent at his schooling.
James Hardcastle, who died of phthisis on February 4th, 1908, at 36, Upper Coventry Flats, South Kensington.
These were Macnab and Wilkie: the one a decent middle-aged man with a fresh-washed face and a celluloid collar, the other a round-shouldered youth, with lank hair and the large eyes and luminous skin which are the marks of phthisis.
Mahomed mentions a hysteric woman of twenty-two at Guy's Hospital, London, with phthisis of the left lung, associated with marked hectic fevers.