The meaning of PHTHISIS is a progressively wasting or consumptive condition; especially : pulmonary tuberculosis.

Medical terms · Tuberculosis, an infectious disease, historically known as phthisis · Phthisis bulbi, shrunken, nonfunctional eye · Phthisis miliaris, miliary ...

5 дней назад · phthisis in British English (ˈθaɪsɪs , ˈfθaɪ- , ˈtaɪ- ) noun. any disease that causes wasting of the body, esp pulmonary tuberculosis. Word ...

noun involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body synonyms: consumption, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague

noun · a wasting away. · pulmonary tuberculosis; consumption.

Tuberculosis was also known as phthisis and consumption from Hippocrates through to the 18th century [1], the white death [4] and the great white plague.

phthisis has developed meanings and uses in subjects including pathology (early 1500s) medicine (early 1700s) ophthalmology (1870s)

Pulmonary phthisis or pulmonary tuberculosis is perhaps one of the most widespread diseases to which mankind is subject. It occurs in persons of all ages.

Phthisis bulbi (end-stage eye) is the medical term for an eye that's damaged enough to shrink and permanently stop working. It causes blindness.