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tabes dorsalis

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tabes dorsalis [′tā·bēz dȯr′sal·əs]
(medicine)
A form of parenchymatous neurosyphilis in which there is demyelination and sclerosis of the posterior columns of the spinal cord. Also known as locomotor ataxia.


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The first psychiatry textbook published in the United States said that masturbation "produces seminal weakness, impotence, dysury, tabes dorsalis, pulmonary consumption, dyspepsia, dimness of sight, vertigo, epilepsy, hypochondriasis, loss of memory, manalgia, fatuity and death.
In his short story Love-o'-Women, published in 1893 in the collection Many Inventions, Kipling gives a clinically accurate description of tabes dorsalis and what is probably the only literary description of Romberg's test.
[52] Systemic lupus erythematosis,[3] poliomyelitis, tabes dorsalis, myotonia congenita, and neurological flaccid conditions[38] are also excluded from the diagnosis of HMS.
 
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