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
- 1920 - A practical medical 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
- 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
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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.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Tuberculosis of the lung causing progressive emaciation of body.
By William R. Warner
By James Champlin Fernald
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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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