white plague

2 definitions found

white plague - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  White plague \White plague\
     Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

white plague - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  white plague
      n 1: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
           [syn: pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis,
           wasting disease, white plague]
      2: an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug) [syn:
         drug addiction, white plague]