progressive+emaciation
21tabes — n. gradual wasting away, progressive emaciation …
22consumption — n. 1. Extinction, destruction, waste, expenditure, use, using up. 2. Phthisis, marasmus, atrophy, decline, tabes, gradual wasting, progressive emaciation …
23decline — I. v. n. 1. Lean downward, incline, slope. 2. Decay, sink, droop, languish, pine, fail, become feeble. 3. Deteriorate, degenerate, be impaired. 4. Decrease, lessen, diminish, wane, fall away. II. v. a. 1. Refuse, reject, avoid. 2 …
24tabes — ta•bes [[t]ˈteɪ biz[/t]] n. 1) pat a gradually progressive emaciation 2) pat tabes dorsalis • Etymology: 1645–55; < L tābēs wasting, decay, akin to tābēre to waste away ta•bet•ic təˈbɛt ɪk adj. n. tab•id ˈtæb ɪd adj …
25tabes — /ˈteɪbiz/ (say taybeez) noun 1. syphilis of the spinal cord and its appendages, characterised by shooting pains and other sensory disturbances, and in the later stages by locomotor ataxia and paralysis. 2. a gradually progressive emaciation;… …
26marasmus — [mə raz′məs] n. [ML < Gr marasmos, a wasting away < marainein, to quench, cause to waste away: see MARE3] a condition of progressive emaciation, esp. in infants, as from inability to assimilate food marasmic adj …
27simmonds' disease — ˈsimən(d)z noun Usage: usually capitalized S Etymology: after Morris Simmonds died 1925 German physician : a disease characterized by extreme and progressive emaciation with atrophy of internal organs, loss of body hair, evidences of premature… …
28ta|bes — «TAY beez», noun. 1. = tabes dorsalis. (Cf. ↑tabes dorsalis) 2. Obsolete. a gradually progressive emaciation; consumption. ╂[< Latin tābēs, is a wasting disease; (literally) a melting away] …
29tabes — Progressive wasting or emaciation. [L. a wasting away] t. infantum t. in infants with congenital syphilis. t. mesenterica tuberculosis of the mesenteric and retroperitoneal lymph node s. * * * ta·bes …
30syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …
