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tabes

Pronunciation: /ˈteɪbiːz/

The English word “tabes” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.
  2. Tabes dorsalis.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tābēs.

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