Meaning of tabes dorsalis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. tabes of the back; a degeneration of the sensory neurons of the spinal cord carrying afferent information.
   countable, uncountable
2. neurosyphilis in the form of such degeneration.
   countable, often, uncountable

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Examples

“Malcolm X: the death of terminal fibrillation, as elegant as the trembling of hands in tabes dorsalis [...].”

“[I told her] of patients with neurosyphilis, tabes dorsalis, who had similar symptoms, but confined to the legs.”

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