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tabes
Part of speech: NounA gradual wasting away of the whole body, accompanied by languor and depressed spirits, without any apparent disease of the viscera.
Usage examples "tabes":- Tabes is the natural consequence of this error; but its effect is evinced by the occurrence of other disorders. - "Remarks on the Subject of Lactation", Edward Morton.
- One of them became idiotic, and afterwards died of Hydrencephalus, under my care; the other was affected with Tabes Mesenterica,- the result I did not witness- but believe the disease terminated fatally. - "Remarks on the Subject of Lactation", Edward Morton.
- This is seriously disturbed by the degeneration in tabes. - "Psychotherapy", James J. Walsh.