What is the meaning of Tabes?

A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.

  1. Tabes dorsalis.

Tabes dorsalis.

the act of wasting away (due to a disease or by other means: especially of the dorsal columns of the spinal cord subserving positional sense in the legs in untreated syphilis)

decay, putrefaction

foulness, stench

moral corruption

fluid from a wound

a fluid that results from melting or dissolving

dative plural of tab

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