noun (n)

• involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body(noun.state)

  Synonym:
  consumption, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague
  

  source: wordnet30
• A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption.(noun)

  source: webster1913