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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tabes \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tabes
n : wasting of the body during a chronic disease
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