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Pining :: Pining (a.) Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing..

Leprosy :: Leprosy (n.) A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is

Colliquation :: Colliquation (n.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages.

Wasting :: Wasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wast.

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc..

Phthisical :: Phthisical (a.) Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

Pining :: Pining (a.) Wasting; consuming.

Volatile :: Volatile (a.) Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aeriform state; subject to evaporation..

Phthisis :: Phthisis (n.) A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption..

Marcor :: Marcor (n.) A wasting away of flesh; decay.

Wasting :: Wasting (a.) Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune..

Atrophy :: Atrophy (n.) A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.

Tabescent :: Tabescent (a.) Withering, or wasting away..

Contabescent :: Contabescent (a.) Wasting away gradually.

Consumption :: Consumption (n.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption..

Absumption :: Absumption (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.

Tabifical :: Tabifical (a.) Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying.

Consumptive :: Consumptive (a.) Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting..

Tabefaction :: Tabefaction (n.) A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.

Misspense :: misspense (n.) A spending improperly; a wasting.

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