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Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.

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  1. n. Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.
  2. n. wasting of the body during a chronic disease
  3. Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms. Tabes dorsalis (dôr*sa"lis) [NL., tabes of the back], locomotor ataxia; -- sometimes called simply tabes. -- Tabes mesenterica [NL., mesenteric tabes], a wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration.
  4. Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hecticfever, with no well-marked local symptoms.
  5. n. wasting of the body during a chronic disease