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
- 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
- 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)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Oddity Software
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The science of utilization, distribution, and consumption of services and materials.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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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
