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Tabes

Tabes Meaning & Definition
Tabes Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Tabes?

[n] wasting of the body during a chronic disease

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See Also | atrophy | wasting | wasting away

Tabes In Webster's Dictionary

\Ta"bes\, n. [L., a wasting disease.] (Med.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms. {Tabes dorsalis}[NL., tabes of the back], locomotor ataxia; -- sometimes called simply tabes. {Tabes mesenterica}[NL., mesenteric tabes], a wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration.

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