tabes

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It is called, in the language of physicians, tabes dorsalis, or dorsal consumption; because it is supposed to arise from the dorsal portion of the spinal marrow.

From The Young Man's Guide by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Although they usually develop in the ataxic stage, one or more years after the initial spinal symptoms, they may appear before there is any evidence of tabes.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

In para-syphilitic lesions such as general paralysis and tabes a positive reaction is almost always present.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

It may result also from the pressure of an abscess or an aneurysm either inside the pelvis or in the buttock, and is sometimes associated with disease of the spinal medulla, such as tabes.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

There is none of the distress caused by true an�sthesia, as, for instance, by the "tabetic mask," or insensibility of part of the face, which sometimes occurs in tabes dorsalis.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)