Syphilis Definition

sĭfə-lĭs
noun
An infectious disease caused by a spirochete (Treponema pallidum) and transmitted usually by sexual intercourse or acquired congenitally: if untreated, it can ultimately lead to the degeneration of the heart, bones, nerve tissue, etc.
Webster's New World

(pathology) A disease spread via sexual activity, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.

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Origin of Syphilis

  • New Latin from Syphilis, sive Morbus Gallicus “Syphilis, or the French Disease,” title of a poem by Girolamo Fracastoro (1478?–1553) from Syphilus the poem's protagonist

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Modern Latin, originally the title of a poem by Girolamo Fracastoro concerning "Syphilus", the supposed first sufferer of the disease.

    From Wiktionary

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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