tabes

Progressive bodily wasting or emaciation.

Tabes dorsalis.

A gradually progressive emaciation.

Same as tabes dorsalis. See below.

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

locomotor ataxia; — sometimes called simply tabes.

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

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

wasting of the body during a chronic disease