tabes noun. ['teɪbi:z] L16.
[Latin = wasting away.]
1. Medicine. Slow progressive emaciation of the body or its parts. Now rare exc. in mod. Latin names of particular conditions. L16.
tabes dorsalis [dɔ:'seɪlɪs] [late Latin = DORSAL adjective] = locomotor ATAXIA. tabes mesenterica [mɛsɛn'tɛrɪkǝ] [mod. Latin] tuberculosis of the mesenteric lymph nodes.
2. Decay of trees or other plants caused by disease or injury. rare. M19.

■ tabetic [tǝ'bɛtɪk] adjective & noun (a) adjective of, pertaining to, or affected with tabes (now usu. spec., tabes dorsalis); (b) noun a person affected with tabes (dorsalis): M19.

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