PSEUDO TABES

(Lat.), n. f. Su2d(psu2d)-o(o3)-tab(ta3b)'ez- (as). From i/fevJij?, false, and tabes (q. v.). Any disease simulating tabes, fa, 48.] P. mesenteric a. A functional affection which simulates tabes mesenteric a; chiefly characterized by impaired appetite and a imilation, emaciation, and sensitivene over the abdomen and especially over the seat of the mesenteric glands. It occurs mostly among young women with lowered vitality and among hysterical subjects, and is due to deficient nerve power and impaired digestion. [D, 25.] O, no; O2, not; O3, whole; Th, thin; Tli2, the; U, like oo in [s. 349]