Consumption
Consumption (?; 215) , noun
[Latin consumptio: compare French consomption.]
1.
The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption.
2.
The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
3.
(Medicine) 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.
Collocations (1)
Consumption of the bowels (Medicine) , inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.