About The Word Tabes
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Tabes
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What's The Definition Of Tabes?
[n] wasting of the body during a chronic disease
Synonyms | Synonyms for Tabes: Related Terms | Find terms related to Tabes: 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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