A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food, or water or a physiological inability to utilize them, with resulting weakness.
A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea".
The act of removing the contents of something; the state of being empty.
Any wasting disease.
A wasting illness of the lungs, such as asthma or tuberculosis; consumption; phthisis.
A person suffering from phthisis.
Any wasting or shrinking of another body part such as, for example, the eye (phthisis bulbi).
Of or relating to phthisis or tuberculosis; tubercular; consumptive.