Tabes

Word TABES
Character 5
Hyphenation ta bes
Pronunciations /ˈteɪbiːz/

Definitions and meanings of "Tabes"

What do we mean by tabes?

Progressive bodily wasting or emaciation. noun

Tabes dorsalis. noun

A gradually progressive emaciation. noun

Same as tabes dorsalis. See below. noun

Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms. noun

Locomotor ataxia; -- sometimes called simply tabes. noun

A wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration. noun

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

Wasting of the body during a chronic disease noun

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

Synonyms and Antonyms for Tabes

The word "tabes" in example sentences

The somewhat frequent occurrence of degenerative diseases of the nervous system (tabes dorsalis and disseminated sclerosis) in persons suffering from malaria by Morton Prince ❋ Unknown (2009)

Table, the Italio hotel rents tabes and chairs and there is a place on Zaragoza in west Ajijic, six corners area that used to sell ice, but doesn't anymore, but does rent plastice tables and chairs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Qualis est animi tinea, quae tabes pectoris zelare in altero vel aliorum felicitatem suam facere miseriam, et velut quosdam pectori suo admovere carnifices, cogitationibus et sensibus suis adhibere tortores, qui se intestinis cruciatibus lacerent. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But in the early 1880s the syphilis returned in the form of a neurosyphilis called tabes dorsalis. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Such an air as I have described, should have no bad effect upon a moist, phlegmatic constitution, such as mine; and yet it must be owned, I have been visibly wasting since I came hither, though this decay I considered as the progress of the tabes which began in England. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Manet vero tabes pituitaria: manet temperamentum in catarrhos proclive. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The explosive rush and momentum of these deafferented extensor reflexes recall the ataxy of tabes. ❋ Unknown (1965)

Jugurthae traderent; alii perfugas vendere, pars ex pacatis praedas agebant; tanta vis avaritiae in animos eorum veluti tabes invaserat. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)

Among special studies of individual diseases were: on tabes dorsalis by Romberg, Duchenne, Armand Trousseau (1801-66), ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Aneurysm of the aorta, excessive blood pressure, serious cardiac and renal conditions, the presence of a hernia and the existence of central nervous disease, as tabes dorsalis, should be at least known before attempting any endoscopic procedure. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

Laryngeal crises of tabes might, because of their sudden onset, be thought due to foreign body. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

It is only within recent years that medical men have recognized the preponderant part played by acquired or inherited syphilis in producing general paralysis, which so largely helps to fill lunatic asylums, and tabes dorsalis which is the most important disease of the spinal cord. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

In more than half of the severe cases of hysteria, compulsion neuroses, etc., which I have treated by psychotherapy, I have succeeded in positively demonstrating that their fathers have gone through an attack of syphilis before marriage; they have either suffered from tabes or general paresis, or there was a definite history of lues. ❋ Sigmund Freud (1897)

# -- _Charcot's disease_ is usually met with in men over thirty who suffer from tabes dorsalis. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

The lessons differ only in detail from those given in the list under tabes. ❋ John K. [Editor] Mitchell (1871)

As to the pains and bowel and bladder disturbances, their handling will be discussed in considering the treatment of the next or middle stage of tabes. ❋ John K. [Editor] Mitchell (1871)

X.Y., æt. forty-two, a steady, sober merchant, closely confined by his business, always of excellent habits, with no possible suspicion of syphilis, was seen first in 1894 in a somewhat advanced stage of tabes, but with no optic or gastric disturbances. ❋ John K. [Editor] Mitchell (1871)

Rest alone will do much to diminish pain and promote sleep in tabes, rest with massage and electricity will do more. ❋ John K. [Editor] Mitchell (1871)

Women, as I have before observed, although rarely in America the victims of tabes, when they do have it have far less disturbance of balance than men, and this is to be attributed to their life-long habit of walking without seeing their feet. ❋ John K. [Editor] Mitchell (1871)

Much controversy has been spent on the question of the share of syphilis in producing tabes, and out of the battle but two facts emerge fairly certain, the one that syphilis often precedes the disease, the other that anti-syphilitic medication is commonly of no service. ❋ John K. [Editor] Mitchell (1871)

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