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1. (noun) pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague
involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

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1. (noun) phthisis
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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