Usually means: Gradually wasting away; becoming emaciated.
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  1. tabescent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. tabescent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. tabescent: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tabescent: Wordnik
  5. tabescent: Wiktionary
  6. tabescent: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. tabescent: Dictionary.com
  8. Tabescent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Tabescent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. tabescent: FreeDictionary.org
  11. tabescent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. tabescent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Tabescent: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. tabescent: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Wasting away, or becoming emaciated.

Similar:
contabescent, emaciated, wasted, cachectic, Gaunt, skeletal, languescent, withered, extenuated, bedraggled, more...

Opposite:
flourishing, thriving, blooming, prospering

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Similar:
contabescent, emaciated, wasted, cachectic, Gaunt, skeletal, languescent, withered, extenuated, bedraggled, more...

Opposite:
flourishing, thriving, blooming, prospering



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