tabes dorsalis

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Definition

Noun: A late-stage neurological complication of untreated syphilis, involving degeneration of the dorsal columns of the spinal cord and sensory nerve roots. This leads to characteristic symptoms such as severe, lightning-like pains, loss of coordination, bladder dysfunction, and impaired reflexes.

Usage

The term is used in medical and historical contexts to describe a specific neurosyphilitic condition. * The patient's unsteady gait and lancinating pains were classic signs of tabes dorsalis. * Before the discovery of penicillin, tabes dorsalis was a feared outcome of tertiary syphilis.

Advanced Usage
  • The condition is also historically referred to as locomotor ataxia, emphasizing the loss of motor coordination.
  • A diagnostic sign associated with is the Argyll Robertson pupil, where the pupil constricts for near vision but not in reaction to light.
Variants and Related Words
  • Tabetic (adjective): Pertaining to or affected by tabes dorsalis.
    • The patient exhibited tabetic crises of pain.
  • Neurosyphilis (noun): A broader term for syphilitic infection of the nervous system, of which is one form.
Synonyms
  • Locomotor ataxia
  • Progressive locomotor ataxia
  • Syphilitic myelopathy
Related Phrases
  • Tabetic crisis: Refers to the sudden, paroxysmal attacks of severe pain experienced in .
  • Posterior column disease: A descriptive term highlighting the primary site of spinal cord pathology in .
Noun
  1. syphilis of the spinal cord characterized by degeneration of sensory neurons and stabbing pains in the trunk and legs and unsteady gait and incontinence and impotence

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