TABES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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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