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Syphilis

noun

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.

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"Syphilis" Quotes from Famous Books

... below the brutes. This is the glory and the penalty of personality. It becomes a unique selective agency whose standard is raised with the advance of civilization. The Australian cannibal, without opium, tobacco, alcohol, or syphilis, may survive with a low morality. The American exposed to these destroyers must be a better man or perish. Personality, thus becoming a keen selective principle, is based not necessarily on overpopulation and competition, ...

— The Arena - Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 • Various

... this makes its home within the body and may manifest its malignity after almost a lifetime of quiescence. In its contribution to the sum total of suffering which disease has occasioned the human race, it is probably that with one exception, syphilis stnds above ...

— An Ethical Problem - Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals • Albert Leffingwell

Words linked to "Syphilis" : venereal infection, chancre, STD, sexually transmitted disease, venereal disease, syphilitic, dose, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, VD, Venus's curse