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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)play

    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)

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