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phthisis
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synonyms: scrofula, consumption, kingʼs evil, struma, ~tisick ???
tags: [obsolete] [pathosis]
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Definition:tuberculosis
image: By Children's Bureau Centennial - 3f05369r, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=66670442
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For some months previous to my becoming acquainted with him, his physicians had declared him in a confirmed phthisis. It was his custom, indeed, to speak calmly of his approaching dissolution, as of a matter neither to be avoided nor regretted.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
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His face lengthens, grows pale and bearded, with sunken eyes, the blotches of phthisis and hectic cheekbones of John F. Taylor.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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