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Definition of Tabes mesenterica

Tabes mesenterica
Tabes Ta"bes, n. [L., a wasting disease.] (Med.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms. Tabes dorsalis[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.

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- Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium...
- fever, and it can also affect the digestive organs, giving rise to "tabes mesenterica", a hypothesis briefly considered (but ultimately dismissed) by Cope...