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Wear :: Wear (n.) The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment..

Phthisis :: Phthisis (n.) 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..

Waste :: Waste (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc..

Maximum :: Maximum (a.) Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat..

Duty :: Duty (n.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods..

Tisic :: Tisic (n.) Consumption; phthisis. See Phthisis.

Consumptive :: Consumptive (a.) Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting..

Marasmus :: Marasmus (n.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.

Consumption :: Consumption (n.) The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction..

Wearing :: Wearing (n.) The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption.

Tubercle :: Tubercle (n.) A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. This is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its vicinity. It is most frequently found in the lungs, causing consumption..

Phthisipneumony :: Phthisipneumony (n.) Pulmonary consumption.

Consumptive :: Consumptive (a.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption..

Consumption :: Consumption (n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay..

Consumption :: Consumption (n.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption..

Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler..

Consumptively :: Consumptively (adv.) In a way tending to or indication consumption.

Hectic :: Hectic (a.) Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush..

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline..

Consumptiveness :: Consumptiveness (n.) A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption..

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