CONSUMPTION
\kənsˈʌmpʃən], \kənsˈʌmpʃən], \k_ə_n_s_ˈʌ_m_p_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of CONSUMPTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing 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
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
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the act of consuming something
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the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
By Princeton University
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involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
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the act of consuming something
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the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
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By Oddity Software
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The science of utilization, distribution, and consumption of services and materials.
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The act of using up; as, the consumption of sugar; the state or process of being used up; a gradual wasting away; pulmonary tuberculosis.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The using up of a material or force. 2. A wasting of the tissues of the body. 3. Tuberculosis, especially of the lungs or intestine.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The act of consuming or wasting away; the state of being wasted; a wasting of flesh; a gradual decay of the body; a disease of the lungs, attended with hectic fever, cough, &c.; phthisis; the use and expenditure of the industrial productions of a state.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The act of consuming; a wasting away of the body by disease, generally understood of the lungs; the use of the products of industry.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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This condition precedes death in the greater part of chronic diseases, and particularly in phthisis pulmonalis: on this account it is, that phthisis has received the name consumption- See Phthisis. Fievre de Consomption, Consumptive fever, is the same as Hectic fever.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A using up, also the amount used up in a given time.
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A wasting away of the body, especially as the result of pulmonary tuberculosis, also that disease itself.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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