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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The Frenkel Method.—In recent years the application of the Frenkel directed movement method, modified somewhat from its application in tabes, has attracted attention in the therapeutics of paralysis agitans.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
It may result also from the pressure of an abscess or an aneurysm either inside the pelvis or in the buttock, and is sometimes associated with disease of the spinal medulla, such as tabes.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Muscle Training.—It is this power of training to enable us to appreciate minute sensations that forms the basis of the Frenkel treatment of tabes.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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
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
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