Phthisis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PHTHISIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a disease of the lungs, also PHTHISIC
• pulmonary tuberculosis or a similar progressive wasting disease.
• any disease that causes wasting of the body, esp pulmonary tuberculosis
• A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption.
• involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Words related to PHTHISIS

phthises16

How to use PHTHISIS in a sentence

• I felt certain that she was not only consumptive, but in all probability she was even now the victim of an advanced stage of phthisis.
• It must be clearly understood that these portraits do not profess to give the whole story of the physiognomy of phthisis.
• The cacodylates, although formerly employed in the treatment of phthisis, should be used with the utmost caution.
• One Hala shortly afterwards followed Falcutius to the grave, having fallen sick with phthisis immediately after the trial.
• Hence results the dry cough, prolonged hoarseness, stitch in the side, spitting of blood, and finally phthisis.
• Asthma is also common in Quito, while phthisis increases as we descend to the sea.
• The Irish are commonly believed to be particularly susceptible to phthisis.
• Compared with the Negro, he is relatively resistant to phthisis and will survive where the Negro dies.
• It has been successfully employed as a medicine in allaying the cough attendant on phthisis, and in hysterical coughs.
• Of the fortune he had married, all that remained to him was the constant grief of beholding those woeful children stricken by the final degeneracy of scrofula and phthisis.
• There is no small pox and little phthisis, and it is interesting to learn that appendicitis is unknown in Africa.
• Here reside many patients suffering from phthisis, for the air is dry and warm and the rainfall phenomenally small.
• And, moreover, as my doctor tells me that I have phthisis, and that I should live as much as possible in the open air, I kill two birds with one stone, as the saying is.

Similar words containing PHTHISI without suffix s

phthisic18 phthisics19 phthisical20 phthisicky27

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