Definitions for phthisis

phthisis phthi·sis

Spelling: [thahy-sis, tahy-]
IPA: /ˈθaɪ sɪs, ˈtaɪ-/

Phthisis is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in phthisis (hhiipsst).

Definitions for phthisis

noun

  1. a wasting away.
  2. pulmonary tuberculosis; consumption.

Origin of phthisis

1515-25; Greek phthísis lung disease, literally, a wasting away, equivalent to phthí(ein) to decay + -sis -sis

Examples for phthisis

phthisis seems to be a malady peculiar to temperate climates.

And yet, he is not the only one in Baalbek who returned from America with phthisis.

It was no new thing to say, or to guess, that phthisis was or might be infective.

She brought up her niece Sophie, who was cured of phthisis by Doctor Pascal.

There are people dying of cancer and phthisis—and we haven't stopped it.

They are found most commonly in phthisis: rarely in other diseases.

He could hear nothing at all, that woman could never have suffered from phthisis.

Was this, then, some special case of phthisis complicated by neurosis?

They seem to have been quite expert in their knowledge of phthisis.

His mother died in his ninth year, after a second marriage, a victim to phthisis.

Word Value for phthisis
Scrable

16

Words with friends

15

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