involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

the act of consuming something

the process of taking food into the body through the mouth ( as by eating)

The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.

The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

The act of using up; as, the consumption of sugar; the state or process of being used up; a gradual wasting away; pulmonary tuberculosis.

The act of using up: a disease in the lungs, which gradually wastes away the frame- PHTHISIS.

Act of consuming; wasting disease in the lungs.

The act or process of consuming.

A wasting disease; phthisis.

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.

The act of consuming; a wasting away of the body by disease, generally understood of the lungs; the use of the products of industry.

Although consumption is not inherited and does not belong in the climate it is getting very popular. – The High Calling by Charles M. Sheldon

Women went about with oranges and ginger- beer, and there was a terrible consumption of nuts going on. – The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

There is a form of very rapid, or so- called galloping consumption, which is seldom observed before the age of seven years; generally two or three years later. – The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West, M.D.

From her wasted appearance one might suppose she was in a consumption, but this fatal disease is unknown in Iceland. – A Girl's Ride in Iceland by Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie

He died in consumption and left her with three little children to support. – From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography by George Edwards M.P., O.B.E.

This is due to excessive consumption of tea. – The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by S.M. Hussey

Another Frenchman inquired for a girl, on whom he could depend, to wait on his wife, who was in a consumption. – Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America by Moses Grandy

But the consumption of good things affords them pleasure too. – The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers

And ill too, dying of consumption! – Rosinante to the Road Again by John Dos Passos

We found one very piteous case of a poor woman in the last stage of consumption. – Missionary Work Among The Ojebway Indians by Edward Francis Wilson

And how I must work, by what handle I shall grasp the world and justify my consumption of its food, that begins to appear. – Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by G. W. Curtis, ed. George Willis Cooke

This illness threatened to turn into consumption- a danger happily averted. – The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Walter Besant

He subsided into a family living given to him by Sir Peter, and tried to die of consumption. – The Dark Tower by Phyllis Bottome

His health endured perfectly, but she began to waste under her constant exertions, and her husband feared that he saw symptoms of consumption; but she was full of delight at some appearances in his wound that made her imagine that it had carried off the disease, and that his danger was over. – A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte M. Yonge

2. Increase of consumption, owing to the great growth of the manufacturing population, England during the war having almost a monopoly of the trade of Europe. – A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. Curtler

To all appearance he was slowly dying of consumption. – Charlie to the Rescue by R.M. Ballantyne