tabes dorsalis
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tabes + dorsalis, "tabes of the back".
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tabes dorsalis (countable and uncountable, plural tabes dorsales)
- (pathology) tabes of the back; a degeneration of the sensory neurons of the spinal cord carrying afferent information.
- (often, more specifically) neurosyphilis in the form of such degeneration.
- 1970, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
- Malcolm X: the death of terminal fibrillation, as elegant as the trembling of hands in tabes dorsalis [...].
- 1984, Oliver Sacks, “The Disembodied Lady”, chapter 3 in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Reset 2007), page 51:
- [I told her] of patients with neurosyphilis, tabes dorsalis, who had similar symptoms, but confined to the legs.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]degeneration
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