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consumption, white plague, pulmonary tuberculosis, phthisis, wasting disease | involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body | |
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consumption, using up, expenditure | the act of consuming something | |
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intake, uptake, consumption, ingestion | the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | |
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tuberculosis, T.B., TB, consumption, phthisic | 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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use, consumption, usance, economic consumption, use of goods and services | [in economics] the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing |