CONSUMPTIVE


Meaning of CONSUMPTIVE in English

adj. & n.

adj. 1 of or tending to consumption. 2 tending to or affected with pulmonary tuberculosis.

n. a consumptive patient. consumptively adv.

[ med.L consumptivus (as consumption) ]

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