what does it mean for someone to die of "consumption"?
2006-09-06 11:57:17 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
tuberculosis of the lungs.
2006-09-06 11:59:32 · answer #1 · answered by kimmyisahotbabe 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Consumption, comes from the Greek (phthisis), and it was the term Hippocrates used circa 460 BCE to describe the most widespread disease of the times: tuberculosis. Nowadays the term is used in a more generalized manner to describe the caquexia or wasting common to tuberculosis, terminal cancer and AIDS and other diseases. The molecular basis of consumption is complex.
2006-09-06 19:19:27 · answer #2 · answered by jorge f 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In the old days, tuberculosis was called "consumption" because the body wasted away, thereby, "consuming itself." W
2006-09-06 19:14:59 · answer #3 · answered by Becky C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Consumption is another word for tuberculosis
2006-09-06 19:04:31 · answer #4 · answered by Bohemian 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tuberculosis
2006-09-06 18:58:48 · answer #5 · answered by MaryBeth 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Merriam Webster: a progressive wasting away of the body especially from pulmonary tuberculosis
2006-09-06 19:00:15 · answer #6 · answered by love2travel 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
consumption, are u reading charles dickens? it means a lung ...im pretty sure it's tuberculosis in the lungs. it's like a lung thing.
2006-09-06 19:00:21 · answer #7 · answered by BlAcKhEaRt 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe it means alcohol consumption, like alcohol poisoning. But I guess it could mean anything consumed,... drugs?
2006-09-06 19:19:01 · answer #8 · answered by paintressa 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, please.
It probably means overeating.
But it could be consumption of anything...
...or it was the old name for TB. It was a good idea to change it 'cause it seems a little vague.
2006-09-06 19:00:28 · answer #9 · answered by __ 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is an old fashioned term for any disease that caused the body to seem to waste-away but it usually referred to what is today called tuberculosis.
2006-09-06 18:58:19 · answer #10 · answered by Jay 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Tuberculosis, a desease of the lung.
2006-09-06 18:59:52 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋