WASTING DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wasting disease mean? 

• WASTING DISEASE (noun)
  The noun WASTING DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

  Familiarity information: WASTING DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WASTING DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

consumption; phthisis; pulmonary tuberculosis; wasting disease; white plague

Hypernyms ("wasting disease" is a kind of...):

T.B.; TB; tuberculosis (infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages))

 Context examples 

Following sustained cycles of repair, which occurs with aging and in muscle wasting diseases like muscular dystrophy, the normal regenerative process becomes impaired.

(Controlling Muscle Repair, NIH)

Synthetic derivatives of the male hormone, androgen, that promote tissue growth by increasing the metabolic processes involved with protein synthesis and are used to promote weight gain in wasting diseases.

(Anabolic steroid, NCI Thesaurus)

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) did not cross the species barrier to infect cynomolgus macaque monkeys during a lengthy investigation by National Institutes of Health scientists exploring risks to humans.

(Study finds no chronic wasting disease transmissibility in macaques, National Institutes of Health)