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phthisis

 (n): involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
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3 months ago chained_bear said:

"They were deep in two extraordinary, unaccountable and lasting cases of remission in phthisis and tetraplegia when the chief huntsman came to say that Omar Pasha would now receive them."
--P. O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 190

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