Tabes

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ta=bes

CIDE DICTIONARY

Tabes, n. [L., a wasting disease.].

 Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.  [1913 Webster]

∥Tabes dorsalis (t [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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Tabes, n. Med.
1 emaciation.
2 locomotor ataxy; a form of neurosyphilis.

Derivative

tabetic adj.

Etymology

L, = wasting away

THESAURUS

Tabes

French disease, Spanish pox, VD, abscess, acquired syphilis, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attenuation, backache, balanitis gangrenosa, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, cerebral tabes, chancre, chancroid, chill, chills, clap, claps, climatic bubo, colic, congenital syphilis, constipation, constitutional syphilis, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, diarrhea, dizziness, dose, dose of clap, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaceration, emaciation, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, fifth venereal disease, flux, general paresis, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, great pox, growth, hard chancre, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, latent syphilis, locomotor ataxia, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, morbus Gallicus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, pain, paralysis, paralytic dementia, paresis, pox, pruritus, pudendal ulcer, rash, rheum, sclerosis, seizure, shock, simple chancre, skin eruption, sneezing, social disease, soft chancre, sore, spasm, syph, syphilis, syphilitic meningoencephalitis, tabes dorsales, tachycardia, tertiary syphilis, tropical bubo, tumor, upset stomach, venereal disease, vertigo, vomiting, wasting

ROGET THESAURUS

Tabes

Contraction

N contraction, reduction, diminution, decrease of size, defalcation, decrement, lessening, shrinking, compaction, tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy, systole, neck, hourglass, condensation, compression, compactness, compendium, squeezing, strangulation, corrugation, astringency, astringents, sclerotics, contractility, compressibility, coarctation, inferiority in size, contracting, astringent, shrunk, contracted, strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted, waning, neap, compact, unexpanded &c (expand), contractile, compressible, smaller &c (small).