शरीर की प्रगतिशील बर्बादी के साथ फेफड़ों को शामिल करना

Noun:

राज-यक्ष्मा, फेफड़े का क्षयरोग, यक्ष्मा,

phthisis's Usage Examples:

It is probable that the carbon monoxide seriously affects the general health and vitality of the men, and renders them more likely to succumb to phthisis.

Drill runners, who are compelled to breathe this dusty air daily, furnish most of the sufferers from phthisis.

Recent investigations have shown an alarming increase in mortality from miners' phthisis in Cornwall, South Africa and elsewhere.

Indeed, in such early stages, and in patients who are enabled to command the means of an expensive method of cure, phthisis is no longer regarded as desperate; while steps are being taken to provide for those who of their own means are unable to obtain these advantages, by the erection of special sanatoriums on a more or less charitable basis.

Individuals suffering from pulmonary phthisis are encouraged to live night and day in the open, and with the best results.

Amyloid develops in various organs and tissues and is commonly associated with chronic phthisis, tubercular disease of bone and joints, and syphilis (congenital and acquired).

In acute and chronic alcoholism, in phthisis, and in other diseases this fatty condition may be very extreme, and is commonly found in association with other tissue changes, so that probably we should look on these changes as a degeneration.

- Tubercle bacilli in tissues from human lung in a case of acute phthisis.

In some mines dust seems to have but little effect on the health of the miners; indeed it is even claimed by some that coal dust decreases the mortality from phthisis.

His mother had suffered from phthisis; and he himself now fell a victim to the same disease.

phthisis's Meaning':

involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Synonyms:

T.B., TB, white plague, wasting disease, pulmonary tuberculosis, tuberculosis, consumption,

Antonyms:

supply,