Phthisis
Phthisis noun - Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body.
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Synonyms for Phthisis
Tuberculosis is a synonym for phthisis in health topic. In some cases you can use "Tuberculosis" instead a noun "Phthisis".
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis noun - 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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Synonyms for Tuberculosis
Phthisis is a synonym for tuberculosis in health topic. You can use "Phthisis" instead a noun "Tuberculosis", if it concerns topics such as infection.
Nearby Words: tubercular, tuberculous
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Related pairs
- decline and phthisis
- decline and tuberculosis
- infection and phthisis
- infection and tuberculosis
- consumption and phthisis
- consumption and tuberculosis
- emaciation and phthisis
- emaciation and tuberculosis
- atrophy and phthisis
- atrophy and tuberculosis
- pulmonary tuberculosis and phthisis
- pulmonary tuberculosis and tuberculosis
- wasting disease and phthisis
- wasting disease and tuberculosis
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The symptoms of tuberculosis (also known as consumption, phthisis, TB, or the White Death) are identical to those of the Incurable Cough Of Death, but death would usually come far more slowly for the TB patient, at least in Real Life.
Source: Incurable Cough of Death
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Tuberculosis and Phthisis. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/phthisis/tuberculosis
Phthisis & Tuberculosis. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/phthisis/tuberculosis>.
Tuberculosis or Phthisis. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/phthisis/tuberculosis.
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