Wiktionary
n. Generic description of a medical condition that causes pronounced loss of body mass.
WordNet
n. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body [syn: pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, white plague]
Usage examples of "wasting disease".
There could be no doubt from the condition of the tissue underlying the barnacles that this was a severely wasting disease which was far advanced.
Karak would contract the mind-wasting disease as surely as the Captain had, though not as quickly.
The mind-wasting disease would be unleashed on the enemies of his people, revenge accomplished, and honor sustained.
As well as suffering from undernourishment or exposure, conditions which are treatable, they displayed symptoms of respiratory distress associated with elevated temperature, or a wasting disease affecting the peripheral vascular and nervous systems.
In the solitude and safety behind these walls, she had spent much time with her mother Livia, who had lost her teenage son, Octa's twin brother Fredo, to a wasting disease.
The king had obviously been a big man, but some wasting disease had taken the flesh from his bones and die strength from his arms.
Among your people, there is a wasting disease from which you all die young.