【来源及含义】Greek: decay, waste away, waning; loss, diminution
【相关描述】In the past, tuberculosis was called consumption, because it seemed to consume people from within, with a bloody cough, fever, pallor, and long relentless wasting. Other names included phthisis, Greek for "consumption" and phthisis pulmonalis.
【相关词根词缀】;Word families with similar applications about: "decay, rotten; wasting away; putrid, pus" word units:;puro- (pus),pus (viscous fluid via an infection),pustu- (blister, pimple),;putre- (rotten, decayed),pyo- (pus; purulent),sapro- (rotten, putrid, putrefaction, decay),sepsi- (decay, rot, putrefactive),suppurant- (festering, forming or discharging pus),tabe- (wasting away, decaying).
【同源单词】antiphthisic, fibroid phthisis, gastrophthisis, hemophthisis, laryngophthisis, limophthisis