Tabes
Tabes (tā"bēz) , noun
[Latin, a wasting disease.]
(Medicine) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.
Collocations (2)
Tabes dorsalis , locomotor ataxia; -- sometimes called simply tabes.
Tabes mesenterica , a wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration.