Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Progressive bodily wasting or emaciation.
- noun Tabes dorsalis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gradually progressive emaciation.
- noun Same as
tabes dorsalis . See below.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.
- noun locomotor ataxia; -- sometimes called simply
tabes . - noun a wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration.
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- noun medicine A kind of slow
bodily wasting oremaciating disease, often accompanying achronic disease.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wasting of the body during a chronic disease
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Table, the Italio hotel rents tabes and chairs and there is a place on Zaragoza in west Ajijic, six corners area that used to sell ice, but doesn't anymore, but does rent plastice tables and chairs.
Party Supplies 2007
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The somewhat frequent occurrence of degenerative diseases of the nervous system (tabes dorsalis and disseminated sclerosis) in persons suffering from malaria by Morton Prince
Bill Gates: The Market does not drive... Governments to do the Right Things... 2009
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Qualis est animi tinea, quae tabes pectoris zelare in altero vel aliorum felicitatem suam facere miseriam, et velut quosdam pectori suo admovere carnifices, cogitationibus et sensibus suis adhibere tortores, qui se intestinis cruciatibus lacerent.
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But in the early 1880s the syphilis returned in the form of a neurosyphilis called tabes dorsalis.
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Such an air as I have described, should have no bad effect upon a moist, phlegmatic constitution, such as mine; and yet it must be owned, I have been visibly wasting since I came hither, though this decay I considered as the progress of the tabes which began in England.
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Manet vero tabes pituitaria: manet temperamentum in catarrhos proclive.
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The explosive rush and momentum of these deafferented extensor reflexes recall the ataxy of tabes.
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Jugurthae traderent; alii perfugas vendere, pars ex pacatis praedas agebant; tanta vis avaritiae in animos eorum veluti tabes invaserat.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Among special studies of individual diseases were: on tabes dorsalis by Romberg, Duchenne, Armand Trousseau (1801-66),
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Aneurysm of the aorta, excessive blood pressure, serious cardiac and renal conditions, the presence of a hernia and the existence of central nervous disease, as tabes dorsalis, should be at least known before attempting any endoscopic procedure.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
chained_bear commented on the word tabes
"'...When I have said that there is a tabes of the inferior members and a generalized severe and progressive lowering of the whole constitution I have said all I can usefully say.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 107
February 13, 2008