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phthisis
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phthisis /phthi·sis/ (thi´sis) (ti´sis) a wasting of the body.
phthi·sis (thss, t-) or phthis·ic (tzk, thz-)
n.
1. A disease characterized by the wasting away or atrophy of the body or part of the body.
2. Tuberculosis of the lungs. No longer in technical use.
phthisis
[tis′is, thī′sis]
Etymology: Gk, phthisis, wasting away
any wasting disease involving all or part of the body, such as pulmonary tuberculosis.
White Plague
Medical history Infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the ‘robber of youth’
Substance abuse A popular term for the epidemic of cocaine abuse
phthisis [thi´sis; ti´sis]
wasting of the body.
phthisis bul´bi shrinkage of the eyeball.
grinder's phthisis a combination of tuberculosis and pneumoconiosis occurring in grinders in the cutlery trade.
miner's phthisis pneumoconiosis of coal workers.
phthisis
1. a wasting of the body.
2. tuberculosis.
phthisis bulbi
shrinkage of the eyeball.
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He was looking for a will--which later turned up in the law offices of Immabod MucMarphy--but all that his uncle's desk contained was a slip of paper with eleven words scratched on it in his uncle's phthisic handwriting: Bass Bow Buffet Invalid Lead Sewer Singer Tear Tower Peer Colonized.
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When asked to explain the strange spelling he said: "Look, the phth is like phthisic, which is pronounced t; olo is like colonel, which is pronounced ur; gn as in gnat is pronounced n; and yrrh, as in myrrh, is pronounced er.
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Shelley's tribute expressed what would become the central metaphor of consumption in the 19th century, the idea that the phthisic body is consumed from within by its passions, "the bloom .
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