Tabes

·noun Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.

tabes
tābes, is, f. [root in Gr. τήκω, ἐτάκην, to melt; suffix as in plebes, pubes], I a wasting away , m...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
tabes
tābēs is, f 1 TA-, a wasting, melting away, dwindling, gradual decline, decay : aegritudo habet ta...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary