white plague
111DUBOS (R.) — DUBOS RENÉ (1901 1982) Médecin et biologiste américain d’origine française. Né près de Paris, à Saint Brice, René Dubos suit les cours du lycée Chaptal puis entre à l’Institut national agronomique de Paris. Après son diplôme, il est assistant à… …
112Y: The Last Man — «Y: The Last Man» …
113consumption — Synonyms and related words: Sanforizing, TB, ablation, active use, aerogenic tuberculosis, appetite, appliance, application, atrophy, attenuation, attrition, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, cannibalism, carnage, carnivorism, carnivority,… …
114tubby — Synonyms and related words: adipose, beefy, big bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, lusty, meaty, obese …
115consumption — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. destruction, use, burning; tuberculosis. See disease, waste. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of consuming] Syn. using, eating, using up, decay, burning, expenditure, exhaustion, depletion, dissipation …
116tuberculosis — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. lung disease, pulmonary phthisis, consumption, T.B.*, lung trouble*; see also disease . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An infectious disease producing lesions especially of the lungs: consumption (no longer in scientific… …
117phthisic — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I noun An infectious disease producing lesions especially of the lungs. No longer in scientific use: consumption (no longer in scientific use), phthisis (no longer in scientific use), tuberculosis, white plague. See HEALTH …
118phthisis — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An infectious disease producing lesions especially of the lungs. No longer in scientific use: consumption (no longer in scientific use), phthisic (no longer in scientific use), tuberculosis, white plague. See HEALTH …
119consumption — pulmonary tuberculosis Prior to penicillin, this was the dread disease which wasted away, or consumed, the sufferer: The girl had died since them. Consumption devoured her. (Keneally, 1979, writing of the 19th century) Also known as… …
120consumption — n 1. use, expenditure, diminution, loss, reduction, depletion, exhaustion; waste, dissipation, dispersion, misuse; wear and tear, harm, damage; destruction, ruin, ruination, ravagement, devastation; demolition, wrecking, razing, gutting,… …
