TABES

tabes

(noun) wasting of the body during a chronic disease

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

tabes (countable and uncountable, plural tabes)

(medical) A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.

(more specifically) Tabes dorsalis.

Anagrams

• Bates, Beast, Sebat, abets, baste, bates, beast, beats, besat, betas, esbat

Source: Wiktionary

Ta"bes (ta"bez), n. [L., a wasting disease.] (Med.)

Definition: Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.

Tabes dorsalis (dôr*sa"lis) [NL., tabes of the back], locomotor ataxia; -- sometimes called simply tabes. -- Tabes mesenterica [NL., mesenteric tabes], a wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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