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• n  involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

• The phthisis victim loses weight, wastes away.
• Father Power died at 25, of phthisis, some 60 years ago.
• Wall Streeters parochially felt that the Administration's encouraging words were calculated to alleviate the stock market's phthisis.

• pulmonary tuberculosis
• consumption
• wasting disease
• white plague