(medicine) A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease. / (more specifically) Tabes dorsalis.

(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.

plural of tabes dorsalis

(pathology) tuberculosis affecting the mesenteric lymphatic system

Wasting away, or becoming emaciated.

The state of being tabescent.