tabes
Americannoun
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a wasting of a bodily organ or part
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short for tabes dorsalis
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of tabes
1645–55; < Latin tābēs wasting, decay, akin to tābēre to waste away
Example Sentences
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There is none of the distress caused by true an�sthesia, as, for instance, by the "tabetic mask," or insensibility of part of the face, which sometimes occurs in tabes dorsalis.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
In para-syphilitic lesions such as general paralysis and tabes a positive reaction is almost always present.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Laryngeal crises of tabes might, because of their sudden onset, be thought due to foreign body.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
It is called, in the language of physicians, tabes dorsalis, or dorsal consumption; because it is supposed to arise from the dorsal portion of the spinal marrow.
From The Young Man's Guide by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
We cannot cure the tabes of the spinal cord.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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