phthisic

Meanings

Noun

• A wasting illness of the lungs, such as asthma or tuberculosis; consumption; phthisis.
• Any wasting disease.
• A person suffering from phthisis.
• Any wasting or shrinking of another body part such as, for example, the eye (phthisis bulbi).

Adjective

• Of or relating to phthisis or tuberculosis; tubercular; consumptive.

Origin

• From Middle English tisike, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin phthisicus ("suffering from tuberculosis"), from Ancient Greek φθισικός ("consumptive"), from φθίσις