MEDICAL DICTIONARY
Phthisis: A good trivia or crossword item. An over-consonanted Greek word meaning "a dwindling or wasting away." Pronounced TIE-sis.
Phthisis is an archaic name for tuberculosis . A person afflicted with tuberculosis in the old days was destined to dwindle and waste away like Mimi, the heroine of Puccini's 1896 opera "La Bohème."
The tongue-twisting name "nephronophthisis" is derived from " nephron " + "phthisis." The nephron is the fundamental functional unit in the kidney and includes the renal tubule and glomerulus . In nephronophthisis the kidney is progressively destroyed and the child wastes away.
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