Dutch - English
Definition of tering in Dutch English dictionary
- phthisis
- {n} a consumption or wasting disease
- A wasting or consumption of the tissues
- involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
- {i} (Pathology) tuberculosis, consumption (type of lung disease)
- The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption
- Tuberculosis
- Consumption ---Chronic wasting away
- an atrophy of the body or part of the body, especially pulmonary tuberculosis
- a wasting away (or a part or of the body); vernacular for pulmonary tuberculosis