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White plague   Listen
noun
White plague  n.  Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"White plague" Quotes from Famous Books



... sunshine, a glass house of fresh air, will be the Christmas offering of Kansas City to the fight against tuberculosis, the "Great White Plague." Ten miles from the business district of the city, overlooking a horizon miles away over valley and hill, stands the finest tuberculosis hospital in the United States. The newly completed institution, although not the largest hospital of the kind, is the best equipped and ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer



Words linked to "White plague" :   nicotine addiction, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, alcoholism, tb, habituation, dependence, T.B., inebriation, dependance, alcohol addiction, addiction, tuberculosis



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