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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 phthi·sis /ˈθaɪsəs, ˈtaɪ, ˈfθaɪ ||ɪ ||aɪ/
 肺結核

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 phthi·sis /ˈt(h)aɪsəs, ˈt(h)ɪsəs/ 名詞
 癆病

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 phthi·sis n.  Med. A wasting or consumption of the tissues.  The term is now obsolete; it was once applied to many wasting diseases, but in the early 1900's became restricted to tuberculosis of the lungs (pulmonary phthisis, or consumption). See Consumption. [Obs.]
 Fibroid phthisis. See under Fibroid.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 phthisis
      n : involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
          [syn: pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, wasting
          disease, white plague]