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úbytě — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • consumption noun The act of eating, drinking, or using something up.
  • tuberculosis noun A serious infectious disease, usually affecting the lungs, caused by a bacterium and marked by coughing, fever, and weight loss.

Senses

úbytě is used for these senses in English:

  • consumption (pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
  • tuberculosis (pathology) An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis, mainly infecting the lungs where it causes tubercles characterized by the expectoration of mucus and sputum, fever, weight loss, and chest pain, and transmitted through inhalation or ingestion of bacteria. [from 1839]

consumption — full definition

  1. noun The act of eating, drinking, or using something up.
  2. noun Historical: a wasting disease, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.

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