wasting disease
Body slowly deteriorates
A wasting disease causes progressive deterioration of the body, with severe weight loss and muscle atrophy.
The term describes conditions where the body essentially consumes itself—tuberculosis was historically called "the wasting disease." Chronic wasting disease specifically refers to a fatal neurological illness affecting deer and elk.
- phthisisPulmonary wasting disease
- cachexiaSevere illness-induced wasting
- consumptionUsing up of resources
- white plagueTuberculosis, historically named
- tuberculosisMycobacterial lung disease
Victorian era · emaciation · skin and bones · weak · atrophy · thin · degeneration · TB · scrapie · malnutrition · pallor · failure to thrive · debilitation · withering · decline · chronic illness · lingering · slow death
- illnesssickness, illness, ailment, disorder, malady
- Euphemismspass away, passed away, passed on, expecting, with child
- Biblical Afflictionsleprosy, blindness, boils, plagues, pestilence
- Old Ailmentsconsumption, dropsy, ague, apoplexy, phthisis
- Old Diseasesplague, smallpox, cholera, typhus, typhoid
- cursescurse, curses, hex, hexes, jinx
wasting diseaseacute illness
Rapid-onset, short-duration disease
acute disease · obesity · acute infection · edema · hypertrophy
wasting diseaserobust health
Excellent physical condition
vitality · thriving · vigor · flourishing · wellness
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