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tabes dorsales

tabes dorsales is the plural of tabes dorsalis.

Meaning of tabes dorsalis

Noun

tabes dorsalis (countable and uncountable, plural tabes dorsales)

  1. tabes of the back; a degeneration of the sensory neurons of the spinal cord carrying afferent information.
  2. (often, more specifically) neurosyphilis in the form of such degeneration.
    • Malcolm X: the death of terminal fibrillation, as elegant as the trembling of hands in tabes dorsalis [...].1970, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

Questions about tabes dorsales

What is tabes dorsales the plural of?
Tabes dorsales is the plural of tabes dorsalis.

Words near tabes dorsales in the dictionary

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

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