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TABES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tabes mean?
• TABES (noun)
The noun TABES has 1 sense:
1. wasting of the body during a chronic disease
Familiarity information: TABES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wasting of the body during a chronic disease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("tabes" is a kind of...):
atrophy; wasting; wasting away (a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse)
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