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phthisis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Phthisis may
refer to: Tuberculosis, an
infectious disease,
historically known as
phthisis Phthisis bulbi...
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Tuberculosis has been
known by many
names from the
technical to the familiar.
Phthisis (φθίσις) in
ancient Gr****
translates to
decay or
wasting disease, presumed...
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Phthisis bulbi is a shrunken, non-functional eye. It may
result from
severe eye disease,
inflammation or injury, or it may
represent a
complication of...
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Silicosis Other names Miner's
phthisis, Grinder's asthma, Potter's rot, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Slice of a lung
affected by...
- history, the
disease tuberculosis has been
variously known as consumption,
phthisis, and the
White Plague. It is
generally accepted that the
causative agent...
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Miliary tuberculosis is a form of
tuberculosis that is
characterized by a wide
dissemination into the
human body and by the tiny size of the
lesions (1–5 mm)...
- to ptosis),
Marfan syndrome, Duane's syndrome,
silent sinus syndrome or
phthisis bulbi.[citation needed] Soparker,
Charles N.S. (2008), "ENOPHTHALMOS 376...
- ****ociation of
Phthia with the Gr**** word
phthisis "consumption, decline;
wasting away" (in English,
phthisis has been used as a
synonym for tuberculosis)...
- of pulmonology. The term
derives from the
designation by
Hippocrates of
phthisis (Gr**** φθίσις)
meaning "consumption". Khovanov, A. V.; Nechaev, V. I.;...
- chest, in
effect pioneering a new non-invasive
diagnostic tool.
Pulmonary phthisis, for example, was one
ailment he
could more
clearly identify using his...
