tabes

(ta’béz) [L.]. 1. Any wasting of the body; progre ive atrophy of the body or a part of it. 2. Locomotor ataxia. diabetic t., a peripheral neuritis occurring in diabetic patients with symptoms of locomotor ataxia. t. dorsa’lis, locomotor ataxia. See aluxia.. ergot‘ica, a con a jon resembling tabes dorsal is, due to ergotism. reditary t., hereditary ataxia. See ataxia. pereditery t.., tabes marked by a primary proliferation of the neuroglia, due to chronic thickening of the blood-ve els of the posterior columns. Ὦ. mesenter’ica, t. mesara‘ica, tuberculosis of the mesenteric glands in children, resulting in digestive derangement and wasting of the body. nerve-t., tabes resulting from parenchymatous degeneration of the posterior columns of the spinal cord. spasmodic t., Little's disease; lateral sclerosis of the spinal cord. See sclerosis. ve el-t., tabes due to an obliterative end arteritis within a principal ve el supplying the posterior column.