Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or affected with tabes (dorsalis).
- (which see, under
disease ). - noun A patient suffering from tabes (dorsalis).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
tabes
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Examples
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In one tabetic subject who had lost desire and ability for more than three years both returned in sufficient force to allow him to beget a child.
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria John K. [Editor] Mitchell 1871
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But the acuteness and rapidity of onset of the tabetic symptoms were so great that in a little more than two years they had reached a condition which most cases only attain in from five to ten years, and this makes the prognosis somewhat less favorable.
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria John K. [Editor] Mitchell 1871
chained_bear commented on the word tabetic
"On October 8, 1918, he wrote in his journal, 'Something has happened to my hind legs and I wobble like a tabetic'—someone suffering from a long and wasting illness, like a person with AIDS who needs a cane—'and can't feel the floor when I unsteadily get up in the morning.... So this is the sequence of the grippe....'"
—John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (NY: Penguin Books, 2004), 233
February 16, 2009