Can anyone tell me what the medical term (phthisis) means. could be wrong spelling. thanks.?

Answer 1

It's a greek word which means to waste away. Also another name for tuberculosis (TB)

Answer 2

The tuberculosis microorganism has learned to survive inside the macrophage. A macrophage is like a neutrophil (the pac man)
. It will eat bacteria, but it doesnot show up on an injured site for 3-7 days. Somehow the tuberculosis microorganisim has outsmarted the macrophage. By sticking around, the bacteria stimulate irritation to the bronchioles ( the tubes in the lungs), causing inflammation. So in essence, tuberculosis is an inflammatory disease. People with tuberculosis develope a wet, hacking cough that will weaken them. They have difficulty breathing. They cannot cure it without some medical treatment.

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FACTS:-
The immune system is almost completely microscopic with thousands of different classes and billions of components.

Inflammation occurs when tissues are injured by bacteria, trauma,toxins,heat, or any other cause. Swelling helps isolate the foreign substance from further contact with body tissues.

The immune system's enzymes and inflammatory chemicals are potent enough to destroy foreign invaders and even bone.

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Answer 3

As a genealogist I have come across this term quite a lot on a number of death certificates of my ancestors.

phthisis, sometimes written in full as "phthisis pulmonalis" is the Greek word for "consumption", a wasting-away disease, and not especially pleasant. We know it today as pulmonary Tuberculosis, and it most commonly affects the lungs. Effective treatments and vaccines weren't developed until the 1940s, but the disease has never been fully eradicated, especially in Africa, and there are still several thousand cases in the UK reported every year.

Answer 4

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This is what wikipedia has to say it means..............

Tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis
Classification & external resources
Chest X-ray of a patient with advanced pulmonary tuberculosis
ICD-10 A15.-A19.
ICD-9 010-018
OMIM 607948
DiseasesDB 8515
MedlinePlus 000077 000624
eMedicine med/2324 emerg/618 radio/411
MeSH C01.252.410.040.552.846
Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for Tubercle Bacillus) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by the mycobacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Mycobacterium bovis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system, lymphatic system, circulatory system, genitourinary system, bones, joints, and even the skin.

Over one-third of the world's population now has the TB bacterium in their bodies and new infections are occurring at a rate of one per second.[1] Not everyone who is infected develops the disease and asymptomatic latent TB infection is most common. However, one in ten latent infections will progress to active TB disease which, if left untreated, will kill more than half of its victims. In 2004, 14.6 million people had active TB and there were 8.9 million new cases and 1.7 million deaths,[1] mostly in developing countries. A rising number of people in the developed world contract tuberculosis because their immune systems are compromised by immunosuppressive drugs, substance abuse, or HIV/AIDS.

The rise in HIV infection levels and the neglect of TB control programs have caused a resurgence of tuberculosis. Drug-resistant strains of TB have emerged and are spreading (in 2000-2004, 20% of cases were resistant to standard treatments, and 2% were also resistant to second-line drugs).[2] Promoted by WHO, the DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment or Directly Observed Therapy) strategy appears to be the primary factor explaining the differences in TB incidence rates cross-nationally (even after considering socio-economic factors), [3] yet almost nothing is known ethnographically about the effectiveness of implementing anti-poverty programs in conjunction with the application of the DOTS TB control strategy program in regions of high TB and MDRTB incidence (resistant to “first line” drugs, isoniazid and rifampin), such as in the case of Peru or Bolivia. The World Health Organization declared TB a global health emergency in 1993, and the Stop TB Partnership proposed a Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis which aims to save 14 million lives between 2006 and 2015.[4]

Hope that helps you.

Answer 5

phthisis
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. Fibroid phthisis. See Fibroid.
Origin: L, fr. Gr, fr. To pass or waste away: cf. F. Phthisie.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=phthisis&action=Search+OMD)

or

Main Entry: phthi·sis
Pronunciation: t(h)-ss, t(h)is-s
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural phthi·ses /t(h)-sz, t(h)is-z/
: a progressively wasting or consumptive condition; especially : pulmonary tuberculosis
(http://www2.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwmednlm?book=Medical&va=phthisis)

Answer 6

Uterine fibroids are usually not dangerous, but can cause immense discomfort and lead to complications like anemia from heavy blood loss. In rare cases, they may cause complications that affect pregnancy.

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Answer 7

It was the old name for tuberculosis.