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Syphilis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A chronic infectious disease caused by a spirochete (Treponema pallidum), either transmitted by direct contact, usually in sexual intercourse, or passed from mother to child in utero, and progressing through three stages characterized respectively by local formation of chancres, ulcerous skin eruptions, and systemic infection leading to general paresis.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A disease spread via sexual activity, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under primary, secondary, and tertiary.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An infectious venereal disease of chronic course, communicated from person to person by actual contact with discharges containing the virus, or by heredity.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)

Word Usage

"The name syphilis comes from a poem written by the physician Girolamo Fracastoro in 1530, about a shepherd named Syphilus who offended the god Apollo and was punished with the world's first case of the pox."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

venereal disease cupid's itch social disease venereal infection cupid's disease

Cross Reference

syphilis bacillus infantile syphilis hereditary syphilis VD STD

Variant

primary secondary tertiary

Hyponym

neurosyphilis tertiary syphilis secondary syphilis primary syphilis

Form

syphilitic syphiloid syphilize

Same Context

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