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noun
A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease.
Tabes dorsalis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: more specifically
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
wasting of the body during a chronic disease
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: atrophy, wasting, wasting away
History
Borrowed from Latin tābēs.
