- pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague - involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
--1 is a kind of tuberculosis, TB, T.B.
- drug addiction, white plague - an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)
--2 is a kind of addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation
--2 has particulars:alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness; cocaine addiction; heroin addiction; caffein addiction; nicotine addiction