Found 3 items, similar to consumption.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: consumption pemakaian, penyakit tbc
English → English (WordNet) Definition: consumption consumption n 1: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) [syn: ingestion, intake, uptake] 2: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body [syn: pulmonary tuberculosis, phthisis, wasting disease , white plague] 3: (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; “the consumption of energy has increased steadily” [syn: economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services] 4: the act of consuming something [syn: using up, expenditure]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Consumption Consumption \Con*sump"tion\ (?; 215), n. [L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption.] 1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction. [1913 Webster] Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay. [1913 Webster] 3. (Med.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption . [1913 Webster] Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease. Syn: Decline; waste; decay. See Decline. [1913 Webster]