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tabes

/ˈteɪbiːz/

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

Noun

tabes (countable and uncountable, plural tabes)

  1. A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.
    1. (more specifically) Tabes dorsalis.

Forms of tabes

pluraltabes

Plural of tabes: tabes

Origin of tabes

Borrowed from Latin tābēs.

Words formed from tabes

Phrases with tabes

Words that rhyme with tabes

Questions about tabes

What does tabes mean?
Tabes means a kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.
What part of speech is tabes?
Tabes is a noun.
How do you pronounce tabes?
Tabes is pronounced /ˈteɪbiːz/.
What is the plural of tabes?
The plural of tabes is tabes.

Words near tabes in the dictionary

  1. tabernanthine
  2. tabernariae
  3. tabernas
  4. tabers
  5. tabersonine
  6. tabes
  7. tabes dorsales
  8. tabes dorsalis
  9. tabes mesenterica
  10. tabescence
  11. tabescent

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