PHTHISIS
\fθˈɪsiz], \fθˈɪsiz], \f_θ_ˈɪ_s_i_z]\
Definitions of PHTHISIS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Tuberculosis of the lung causing progressive emaciation of body.
By William R. Warner
By James Champlin Fernald
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This word, taken in a general sense, means progressive emaciation of every part of the body. It is usually, however, restricted to phthisis pulmonalis.
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Cancer of the lung, which gives rise to carcinomatous phthisis, (F.) Phthisie carcinomateuse, of Bayle.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin, Greek] A tubercular disease of the lungs;—pulmonary consumption.
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