tabes
Americannoun
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a wasting of a bodily organ or part
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short for tabes dorsalis
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Etymology
Origin of tabes
1645–55; < Latin tābēs wasting, decay, akin to tābēre to waste away
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In tabes dorsalis faradic treatment will often diminish the anaesthesia and numbness in the legs, with resulting benefit to the ataxy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
More rarely it appears as tabes mesenterica in infants, tubercular peritonitis, and tubercular disease of the internal organs.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
This is seriously disturbed by the degeneration in tabes.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
It must be used with great care not to exhaust the patient, but this is true also in tabes.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
There may be gastric crises that recall those of tabes, and there may be vesical and rectal crises of a similar nature.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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