phthisical

American  

[tiz-i-kuhl, thiz-] / ˈtɪz ɪ kəl, ˈθɪz- /

Also phthisicky

adjective

1. pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected by phthisis.

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Other Word Forms

• prephthisical adjective

Etymology

Origin of phthisical

First recorded in 1605–15; phthisic + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Persons who have a marked predisposition to the disease had best not come in close contact with the phthisical.

From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by McCarty, Louis Philippe

Malta is a famous resort for phthisical patients, although during the winter and spring the weather is cold and variable, and in autumn the sirocco is frequent.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 by Chambers, William

What then of these child-martyrs of The Poor, who in addition to the strain of growth, are ill-fed, poisoned by unsuitable foods; are sickly, rickety, bronchitic, dyspeptic, syphilitic, phthisical?

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

Koch has found in examining the sputa from numerous cases of phthisis that the bacilli were present in one-half the number, and that they were absent from the sputa of individuals who were not phthisical.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

In 1794 he married a sister of Maria Edgeworth; and in 1798, with the pecuniary aid of Wedgwood, opened a pneumatic institution for curing phthisical and other diseases by inhalation of gases.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various