consumption

noun6

1. •
   The act of eating, drinking or using.

   • The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.
2. •
   The act of consuming or destroying.

   • The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
3. •
   The amount consumed.
4. •
   The wasting away of the human body through disease.
5. •
   (old-fashioned) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.

   • And then as to your scurvys, and gouts, rheumatisms, consumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you as sound as a roach. — 1763
6. •
   (euphemistic, old-fashioned) Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).