phthisis

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An atrophy of the body or part of the body, especially pulmonary tuberculosis. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — For some months 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 a matter neither to be avoided nor regretted.

词形变化

phthises plural

词源

Borrowed from Latin phthisis, from Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “consumption, decline, wasting away”), from φθίω (phthíō, “to waste away”).
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