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phthisis

noun as in tuberculosis

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I then forwarded the collection to Washington as ordered except one Ogalalla skull of a young squaw that died of phthisis.

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The city is full of phthisis; the insanitary conditions under which the vast majority of the inhabitants live favour its rapid dissemination.

A toothache produces more violent convulsions of pain than a phthisis or a dropsy.

We must take the world as we find it, full of men and women predisposed to tubercular phthisis, and with no idea of its contagious nature.

It seems probable that the constant an�mia, with the loss of the blood-corpuscles, of pulmonary phthisis is an important additional factor in checking oxidation in this disease.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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