Syphilis Synonyms

sĭfə-lĭs
A common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. syph
  2. pox
  3. lues-venerea
  4. lues

Words Related to Syphilis

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Syphilis Sentence Examples

  • He's had syphilis of the central nervous system.

  • The spread of syphilis, a disease equally unknown to the ancients, and the failure of Galen's remedies to cure it, had a similar effect.

  • Nevertheless the resemblance between the biology of this organism in relation to syphilis (as regards mode of infection, habitat, &c.) and that of Trypanosoma equiperdum, the cause of dourine or " horse-syphilis," may not be without significance.

  • The school of thought at the time was to treat syphilis with a substance called guaiac.

  • Thus the liability to tubercular infection is far commoner in the midst of a depraved population than in one fulfilling the primary laws of nature; rickets is a disease of great cities rather than of rural districts; and syphilis is more disastrous and protracted in its course in the depraved in health than in the robust.

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