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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 tābēs wasting, decay, akin to tābēre to waste away
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tabes1

C17: from Latin: a wasting away
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Example Sentences

More rarely it appears as tabes mesenterica in infants, tubercular peritonitis, and tubercular disease of the internal organs.

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?

We cannot cure the tabes of the spinal cord.

This is one of the first symptoms of tabes.

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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