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tabes

[ tey-beez ]

noun

Pathology.
  1. a gradually progressive emaciation.


tabes

/ ˈteɪbiːz; təˈbɛtɪk /

noun

  1. a wasting of a bodily organ or part
  2. short for tabes dorsalis
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Derived Forms

  • tabetic, adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tabes1

1645–55; < Latin ŧ wasting, decay, akin to ŧ to waste away
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tabes1

C17: from Latin: a wasting away
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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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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.

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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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