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Definition of Fibroid phthisis

Fibroid phthisis
Phthisis Phthi"sis, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to pass or waste away: cf. F. phthisie.] (Med.) 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. Fibroid phthisis. See under Fibroid.

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- familiar. Phthisis (Φθισις) is a Gr**** word for consumption, an old term for pulmonary tuberculosis; around 460 BCE, Hippocrates described phthisis as a disease...
- disablement or are suspended from employment owing to the disease known as fibroid phthisis or silicosis of the lungs. Finance Act 1918 8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 15 30...
- Transactions of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2nd Series, 1876 Fibroid Phthisis, read before the New York Academy of Medicine, 1876 Physical Signs...