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What is a phthisis?

What is a phthisis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (archaic) An atrophy of the body or part of the body, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
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And yet, he is not the only one in Baalbek who returned from America with phthisis.
Death rates from silicosis, miners' phthisis, and tubercular diseases were very high on the Rand.
Several other events have acted to reignite the old problem known as phthisis, consumption, or the white plague.
Adverse outcomes of interventions were corneal exposure, ulceration, phthisis bulbi, and severe recurrent trichiasis.
The subjects of hebephrenia are peculiarly liable to tubercular infection and many die of phthisis.
He could hear nothing at all, that woman could never have suffered from phthisis.

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