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Webster 1913 Edition

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(tā′bēz)

Noun.

[L., a wasting disease.]

(Med.)

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

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Tabes dorsalis

(tā′bēz dôr-sā′lĭs)

[NL., tabes of the back]

locomotor ataxia; – sometimes called simply tabes.

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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.