phthisic

Meanings

1. A wasting illness of the lungs, such as asthma or tuberculosis; consumption; phthisis.
2. Any wasting disease.
3. A person suffering from phthisis.
4. Any wasting or shrinking of another body part such as, for example, the eye (phthisis bulbi).

1. Of or relating to phthisis or tuberculosis; tubercular; consumptive.

Etymology

From Middle English tisike, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin phthisicus (“suffering from tuberculosis”), from Ancient Greek φθισικός (phthisikós, “consumptive”), from φθίσις (phthísis, “tuberculosis, consumption”).