Any wasting or shrinking of another body part such as, for example, the eye (phthisis bulbi).
A wasting illness of the lungs, such as asthma or tuberculosis; consumption; phthisis.
Any wasting disease.
A person suffering from phthisis.
Of or relating to phthisis or tuberculosis; tubercular; consumptive.
The act by which something is sapped or depleted.
The act of excavating trenches.
The act of being struck with a sap or club.