wasting disease

Noun
  1. Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body (synset 114167546)
    is a type of: t.b., tb, tuberculosis - infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)
    same as: consumption, phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, white plague

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