‖Ta″bes (?), n.(Med.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.
‖Tabes dorsalis (�), locomotor ataxia; — sometimes called simply tabes. — ‖Tabes mesenterica (�), a wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration.