phthisis
phthi·sis
noun
1.
involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
Origin
Borrowed from Latin phthisis, from Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “consumption, decline, wasting away”), from φθίω (phthíō, “to waste away”).
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