Synonyms: white plague, drug addiction
Definition: an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)
Similar words: addiction, habituation, dependance, dependence, dependency
Definition: being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
Synonyms: phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, wasting disease, white plague
Definition: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
Similar words: tuberculosis, T.B., TB
Definition: infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)