| Pronunciation: | | 'teybeez
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| Matching Terms: | | tabeal, tabeel, tabefaction, tabefy, tabella, tabellion, taber, taberah, taberd, tabering, tabernacle, tabernacles, tabernacles, feast of, tabernacular, tabernaemontana, tabernaemontana divaricate, tabes dorsalis, tabescent, tabetic
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| | Definition: | | [n] wasting of the body during a chronic disease |
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| | See Also: | | atrophy, wasting, wasting away |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ta"bes\, n. [L., a wasting disease.] (Med.)
Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic
fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.
{Tabes dorsalis}[NL., tabes of the back], locomotor ataxia;
-- sometimes called simply tabes.
{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.
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