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Phthisis (mythology) 
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Phthisis (Ancient Greek: Φθίσις, phthísis; 'wasting away'; Roman name; Tabes), one of the Nosoi/Pestis, was the personification/daemon of rot, decay and putrefaction, in Greco-Roman mythology.[1][2]