Usually means: Patients suffering from tuberculosis disease.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. consumptives: Merriam-Webster
  2. consumptives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. consumptives: Vocabulary.com
  4. Consumptives, consumptives: Wordnik
  5. consumptives: Wiktionary
  6. consumptives: Dictionary.com
  7. consumptives: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. consumptives: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. consumptives: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. consumptives: Medical dictionary

(Note: See consumptive as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (consumptive)

adjective:  Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
adjective:  Of, or relating to consumption.
adjective:  (pathology) Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
noun:  A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
▸ Also see consumptive


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