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wasting disease

DEFINITIONS OF: wasting disease

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n involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Synonyms:
consumption, phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, white plague
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)
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