tabes

[tey-beez]

noun

Pathology.

1. a gradually progressive emaciation.

2. tabes dorsalis.

tabes

/ ˈteɪbiːz, təˈbɛtɪk /

noun

1. a wasting of a bodily organ or part

2. short for tabes dorsalis

Other Word Forms

• tabetic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of tabes¹

1645–55; < Latin tābēs wasting, decay, akin to tābēre to waste away

Word History and Origins

Origin of tabes¹

C17: from Latin: a wasting away

Example Sentences

More rarely it appears as tabes mesenterica in infants, tubercular peritonitis, and tubercular disease of the internal organs.

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See under what terror people live: the executioner's axe, the gallows, the bullet, cancer, consumption, typhoid fever, tabes--suffering, pain, whole months and years of torture--and why?

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There may be gastric crises that recall those of tabes, and there may be vesical and rectal crises of a similar nature.

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This is one of the first symptoms of tabes.

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Two slaves in striped cotton tabes, who were fanning the air through a lattice work of cane, pointed out the retirement of the sultan.

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