Definitions for: Consumption


[n] the act of consuming something
[n] the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
[n] (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
[n] involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body



Webster (1913) Definition: Con*sump"tion (?; 215), n. [L. consumptio: cf. F.
consomption.]
1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.;
decay; destruction.

Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a
new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his
consumption. --Burke.

2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or
diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

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}.



Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and
ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

Syn: Decline; waste; decay. See Decline.

Synonyms: economic consumption, expenditure, ingestion, intake, phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, uptake, usance, use, use of goods and services, using up, wasting disease, white plague

See Also: activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process, burnup, conspicuous consumption, deglutition, demand, depletion, drink, drinking, eating, feeding, imbibing, imbibition, suck, sucking, suction, swallow, T.B., TB, tuberculosis

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