phthisis
Meaning of phthisis
noun
pulmonary tuberculosis or a similar progressive wasting disease.
mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek, from phthinein ‘to decay’.
Information about phthisis
- It is a name.
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Hyphenation of phthisis
ph-thi-sis
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- phthisis is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
phthisis synonyms
Meaning pulmonary tuberculosis:
Words that rhyme with phthisis
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