| tabes ergotica | Ataxia, amyotrophy, and neuralgic pain seen in ergot intoxication. Tabes infantum, tabes in infants with congenital syphilis. Tabes mesenterica, tuberculosis of the mesenteric and retroperitoneal lymph nodes. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| tabes spasmodica | A type of cerebral palsy in which there is bilateral spasticity, with the lower extremities more severely affected. Compare: flaccid paralysis. Synonym: Erb-Charcot disease, infantile diplegia, Little's disease, spastic spinal paralysis, tabes spasmodica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tabes spinalis | See Tabes dorsalis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tabescence | The state of progressive wasting away. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tabescent | Characteristic of tabes. Origin: L. Tabesco, to waste away, fr. Tabes, a wasting away (05 Mar 2000) |
| tabetic | <medicine> Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid. One affected with tabes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tabetic arthropathy | A neuropathic arthropathy that occurs with tabes dorsalis (tabetic neurosyphilis). See: neuropathic joint. Synonym: Charcot's joint. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tabetic crisis | A sudden paroxysmal intensification of symptoms in the course of a disease. Origin: L., Gr. Krisis (18 Nov 1997) |
| tabetic cuirass | An analgesic or hypalgesic zone in the proximal thoracic region, found in tabetic neurosyphilis. Synonym: analgesic cuirass, Hitzig's girdle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tabetic dissociation | Loss of proprioceptive sensation with retained pain and temperature sensation due to involvement of the posterior columns of the spinal cord. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tabetic neurosyphilis | See Tabes dorsalis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tabetiform | Resembling tabes, especially tabes dorsalis. Origin: irreg. Formed fr. L. Tabes, a wasting, + forma, form (05 Mar 2000) |
| tabic | <medicine> Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid. One affected with tabes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tabid | <medicine> Affected by tabes; tabetic. "In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative." (Arbuthnot) Tab"idly, Tab"idness. Origin: L. Tabidus: cf. F. Tabide. See Tabes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tabifical | <medicine> Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying. Origin: Tabes + L. Facere = to make. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |