Crossword clues for tabes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tabes \Ta"bes\ (t[=a]"b[=e]z), n. [L., a wasting disease.] (Med.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.
Tabes dorsalis (t[=a]"b[=e]z d[^o]r*s[=a]"l[i^]s) [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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"emaciation," 1650s, medical Latin, from Latin tabes "a melting, wasting away, putrefaction," from tabere "to melt, waste away, be consumed," from PIE *ta- "to melt, dissolve" (see thaw (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. (context medical English) A kind of slow bodily waste#Verb or emaciate disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.
WordNet
n. wasting of the body during a chronic disease
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "tabes".
Hydrocephalus, tabes mesenterica, and other similar maladies, are natural agencies which cut off the children of races that are sinking below the decent minimum which nature has established as the condition of viability, before they reach the age of reproduction.
The narrator said the man about to come in for interview had tabes dorsalis and general paresis.
He fondled the gelatinous packets strapped to his waist, touched the intravenous tabes running into his chest and neck.
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.
As usual, there were tables full of old men from the neighborhood as well as assorted Hollywood wannabes and use tabes Lindsay was ensconced in a corner booth, and she waved him over as he crossed the room.
But he's not going to do anything until next week after I finish the books for him, so I had secret orders cut for us this week sending us to Tabes Dorsalis where the cement mines are.
But he's not going to do anything until next week after I finish the books for him, so I had secret orders cut for us this week sending us to Tabes Dorsalis where the Cement Mines are.
But he’s not going to do anything until next week after I finish the books for him, so I had secret orders cut for us this week sending us to Tabes Dorsalis where the cement mines are.
That was in 1818, and when I became horribly ill and died in 1822 I knew that it was not simply the liver ailment that grew from all that champagne, or the mysterious paralysis that was at last diagnosed as tabes dorsalis -- one of the many names given to the old, old disease -- that carried me off.
Wrapped in a tattered cloak, his brow covered with tubercules, his nose gnawed by a tabes, his eyes of marble, one green and one black, a weasel’s gaze, brows sloping downwards, a harelip revealing wolfs teeth sharp and protruding, kinky hair, sandy skin, hands with stubby fingers and curving nails.