The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφθίσις“wasting away, perishing, decay”
- English todaynephronophthisis
From nephron + -o- + phthisis (“progressive wasting disease”), from Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “wasting away, perishing, decay”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekφθίσις all →
phthisis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.