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tabes dorsalis

[ dawr-sal-is, -sey-lis ]

noun

Pathology.
  1. syphilis of the spinal cord and its appendages, characterized by shooting pains and other sensory disturbances, and, in the later stages, by paralysis.


tabes dorsalis

/ »åÉ”Ëˈ²õɑ˱ôɪ²õ /

noun

  1. a form of late syphilis that attacks the spinal cord causing degeneration of the nerve fibres, pains in the legs, paralysis of the leg muscles, acute abdominal pain, etc Also calledlocomotor ataxia
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Origin of tabes dorsalis1

1675–85; < New Latin tÄbÄ“s dorsÄlis literally, tabes of the back; dorsal 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tabes dorsalis1

New Latin, literally: tabes of the back; see tabes , dorsal
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Example Sentences

The work of Flexner and Noguchi on paresis and tabes dorsalis show that always in such afflictions the tissues of the central nervous system have been invaded by the parasite.

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There is none of the distress caused by true an�sthesia, as, for instance, by the "tabetic mask," or insensibility of part of the face, which sometimes occurs in tabes dorsalis.

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In tabes dorsalis faradic treatment will often diminish the anaesthesia and numbness in the legs, with resulting benefit to the ataxy.

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Soon after this he was suddenly stricken down by disease--tabes dorsalis; his body gradually died, beginning at the feet and moving up to the brain, a process which lasted several weeks.

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Neuro-Arthropathies.—Charcot's disease is usually met with in men over thirty who suffer from tabes dorsalis.

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