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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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 William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
Neuro-Arthropathies.—Charcot's disease is usually met with in men over thirty who suffer from tabes dorsalis.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
Certainly locomotor ataxic patients would seem the least likely to be benefited by training in movement and yet this movement therapy for tabes has had some wonderful results.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
We cannot cure the tabes of the spinal cord.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
The work of Flexner and Noguchi on paresis and tabes dorsalis show that always in such afflictions the tissues of the central nervous system have been invaded by the parasite.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer
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