phtisic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
Example Sentences
- "Bacteria coming from the mouth are almost always to be found in phtisic sputum."
- "Among the phtisic Coyntes, some are like a little flat with a slit in it, enveloped in a little skin, without either mount or border."
- "The socalled phtisic and apopleptic habitus are old denominations used by the ancient physicians to designate respectively a long thin and a short broad physical constitution. According to the volume of the trunk in relation to the other […]"
- "Now, my feign'd cough, my phtisic, and my gout, […]"
- "We need money and laws for that purpose. We need f.e. a law to be able to separate an infectious phtisic from his family even against his own will."