Definition of tabes in English:
tabes
noun
MedicineEmaciation.
See also tabes dorsalis‘If no other symptoms of tabes can be found, it is an eye lesion.’- ‘The average duration of tabes can be placed at from 10 to 20 years.’
Pronunciation
Origin
Late 16th century from Latin, literally ‘wasting away’.
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