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tabes dorsalis

Today it means: tabes of the back; a degeneration of the sensory neurons of the spinal cord carrying afferent information. Full definition →

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From tabes + dorsalis, "tabes of the back".

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.