It is an old word for the disease Tuberculosis.
She had TB (tuberculosis), or what was commonly referred to as "consumption" in those days.
"Consumption" is an old name for tuberculosis (TB) that describes how the illness wastes away or consumes its victims. TB is "an ancient enemy" that has plagued humankind for more than five thousand years. The act or process of consuming. Consumption can be either a wasting disease, or the act of using up resources.
Career woman's disease
They belong to the genus called "Borrelia".The name "Lyme" disease comes from the name of two towns in southeastern Connecticut, Lyme and Old Lyme, where the disease was studied in in 1975.
Mumps
Using something that can no longer be used when you're done with it. i. e. Food, gas in your car. In economics, this would be pretty much anything that uses resources that don't involve the making or selling of a product/service. Consumption is also an old-timey phrase describing fatal infectious or parasitic disease.
It will not increase fuel consumption.
White blood disease is an old name for leukemia. There are many more white blood cells than there should be.
Not only old people get Parkinson's disease.
Hypoparathyroidism.I first heard of it in Orphan.
there are so many heart disease due to old age
Progeria or Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome to give it it's full name.