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 William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
Laryngeal crises of tabes might, because of their sudden onset, be thought due to foreign body.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
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 Alexis Thomson
It must be used with great care not to exhaust the patient, but this is true also in tabes.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
The Frenkel Method.—In recent years the application of the Frenkel directed movement method, modified somewhat from its application in tabes, has attracted attention in the therapeutics of paralysis agitans.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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