PHTHISIS as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
   Synonym(s)
   • consumption (what does consumption mean?)
   • pulmonary tuberculosis (what does pulmonary tuberculosis mean?)
   • wasting disease (what does wasting disease mean?)
   • white plague (what does white plague mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) phthisis is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • tuberculosis (what does tuberculosis mean?)
   • TB (what does TB mean?)
   • T.B. (what does T.B. mean?)