Consumption /(?; 215)/

Con·sump·tion

Consumption

n.
  1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
    Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption.
  2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
  3. A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. (Med.)

Phrases & Compounds
Consumption of the bowels
inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.