Consumption may refer to: *

Eating Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food. In biology, this is typically done to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and nutrients and to allow for growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive – ...

Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can al ...

, an infectious disease, historically known as consumption * Consumer (food chain), receipt of energy by consuming other organisms *

Consumption (economics) Consumption refers to the use of resources to fulfill present needs and desires. It is seen in contrast to investing, which is spending for acquisition of ''future'' income. Consumption is a major concept in economics and is also studied in man ...

, the purchasing of newly produced goods for current use also defined as the consuming of products ** Consumption function, an economic formula * Consumption (sociology) of resources, associated with social class, identity, group membership, and age

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