WASTING DISEASE
Dictionary entry overview: What does wasting disease mean? • WASTING DISEASE (noun)
The noun WASTING DISEASE has 1 sense:
1. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
Familiarity information: WASTING DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WASTING DISEASE (noun)
Meaning:
Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
phthisis; pulmonary tuberculosis; wasting disease; white plague; consumption
Hypernyms ("wasting disease" is a kind 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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