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SYPHILIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
Synonyms:
lues; lues venerea; pox; syph; syphilis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("syphilis" is a kind of...):
Cupid's disease; Cupid's itch; dose; sexually transmitted disease; social disease; STD; VD; venereal disease; venereal infection; Venus's curse (a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact)
Meronyms (parts of "syphilis"):
chancre (a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "syphilis"):
primary syphilis (the first stage; characterized by a chancre at the site of infection)
secondary syphilis (the second stage; characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane)
tertiary syphilis (the third stage; characterized by involvement of internal organs especially the brain and spinal cord as well as the heart and liver)
neurosyphilis (syphilis of the central nervous system)
Derivation:
syphilitic (of or relating to or infected with syphilis)
