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chronic disease, defile [JV]

1) disease hard to cure, chronic disease [consumption, phthisis]; 2) cliff, ravine, defile; 3) old and tattered, ramshackle, dilapidated [IW]

abbr. gcong nad consumption, phthisis [RY]

1) tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis; 2) chronic bronchitis. Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria. One of many glo nad, lung diseases or pulmonary diseases. This term is interchangeable with gcong nad and glo gcong, while the full term is glo gcong gi nad. Erick Tsiknopoulos