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tabes
[ tey-beez ]
tabes
/ ˈteɪbiːz; təˈbɛtɪk /
noun
- a wasting of a bodily organ or part
- short for tabes dorsalis
Derived Forms
- tabetic, adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of tabes1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of tabes1
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?
There may be gastric crises that recall those of tabes, and there may be vesical and rectal crises of a similar nature.
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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