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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 (dĂ´r*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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