consumption Copy link Outline I. Act of consuming, etc.1. consumptio (a using up)2. confectio (wasting, destroying)II. A disease1. căchexia, atrŏphia2. phthisis pulmonaria (pulmonary c.)3. tābes (general term denoting all wasting of the body) • consumption: I. Act of consuming, etc.: prob. only in senses of the verbs, to use up, to waste away (see to consume): 1. consumptio (a using up): Cic. 2. confectio (wasting, destroying): c. of health and strength (by licentiousness), c. valetudinis, Cic. Phr.: after the c. of all the provisions, omni re frumentaria consumpta, etc.: v. to consume. II. A disease: 1. căchexia, atrŏphia: Coel. 2. phthisis pulmonaria (pulmonary c.): Cels.: Plin. 3. tābes (general term denoting all wasting of the body): v. wasting.
CONSUMPTION Copy link • CONSUMPTIONconsumptio (a consuming; Vid: To CONSUME). The disease, tabes (of which Cels., 3, 22, gives the different kinds in Greek; later writers in Latin; as, atrophia; cachexia; phthisis). A slow consumption, lenta tabes: to fall into a consumption, corpus ad tabem venit: tabes aliquem invadit: to be dying of consumption, *tabe laborare [Sidon., Ep., 5, 14, uses phthisiscare, to be suffering from consumption]: to die of a rapid cnsumption, subito macie, et deinde morte corripi. OBSERVE: Phthisis is (according to Cels., 3, 22) the longe periculosissima species; oritur fere e capite; inde in pulmonem destillat; huic exulceratio accedit; ex hac febricula levis fit, quae etiam cum quievit, tamen, repetit: frequens tussis est: pus exscreatur; interdum cruentum aliquid. This is “vera phthisis.”