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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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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...
- familiar.
Phthisis (φθίσις) is the Gr**** word for consumption, an old term for
pulmonary tuberculosis;
around 460 BCE,
Hippocrates described phthisis as a...
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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)...
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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...
- 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)...
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tuberculosis —
ulcerous phthisis,
calculous phthisis,
cancerous phthisis,
tubercular phthisis,
glandular phthisis, and
phthisis with melanosis. His best...
- of pulmonology. The term
derives from the
designation by
Hippocrates of
phthisis (Gr**** φθίσις)
meaning "consumption". Khovanov, A. V.; Nechaev, V. I.;...
