Phthisis Definition

thīsĭs, tī-, thĭsĭs, tĭs-
noun
A disease characterized by the wasting away or atrophy of the body or a part of the body.
American Heritage Medicine
Any wasting disease, as tuberculosis of the lungs.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Phthisis

Noun

Singular:
phthisis
Plural:
phthises

Origin of Phthisis

  • From Latin phthisis, from Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthisis, “consumption, decline, wasting away"), from φθίω (phthiō, “I waste away").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin from Greek from phthinein to waste away

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Phthisis Sentence Examples

  • His mother had suffered from phthisis; and he himself now fell a victim to the same disease.

  • In acute and chronic alcoholism, in phthisis, and in other diseases this fatty condition may be very extreme, and is commonly found in association with other tissue changes, so that probably we should look on these changes as a degeneration.

  • Amyloid develops in various organs and tissues and is commonly associated with chronic phthisis, tubercular disease of bone and joints, and syphilis (congenital and acquired).

  • Individuals suffering from pulmonary phthisis are encouraged to live night and day in the open, and with the best results.

  • Indeed, in such early stages, and in patients who are enabled to command the means of an expensive method of cure, phthisis is no longer regarded as desperate; while steps are being taken to provide for those who of their own means are unable to obtain these advantages, by the erection of special sanatoriums on a more or less charitable basis.

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