Harmful in effect.
Unfriendly, hostile.
Of or relating to phthisis or tuberculosis; tubercular; consumptive.
A wasting illness of the lungs, such as asthma or tuberculosis; consumption; phthisis.
Any wasting disease.
A person suffering from phthisis.
Any wasting or shrinking of another body part such as, for example, the eye (phthisis bulbi).