syphilis
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈsɪfɪlɪs/
- Specialized
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sífilis
- Pregnant women should be tested for syphilis to prevent passing the infection to their babies.
- contract syphilis
- syphilis infection
- spread of syphilis
You need a VDRL test, which is a test for syphilis.
- You need a VDRL test, which is a test for syphilis.
- They did not tell them they were denying treatment for syphilis.
- Well, so most of my work in the last six months or so has been on looking at the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
- Compare you to America's sweetheart Al Capone, who, I remind you, died on an inescapable prison island of syphilis.
- The facts are out there in the open and syphilis is another germ theory fantasy.
- The Tuskegee Experiment, The syphilis study at syphilis.
- I want to be effectively dying of syphilis.
- But there's plenty of fish in the mall and the early bird catches the syphilis.
- He also reinfected what the with syphilis.
- But that turned out to be the climate change denying syphilis, gay person, whatever was wrong.
Examples
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They should be screened and treated for syphilis for other STI's on the same day.
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Meanwhile, apparently there are a horrifying number of syphilis infections in Alberta.
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The sex workers would get syphilis and it would come out in red patches on the body.
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And died of syphilis and exhaustion at the end of a short life.
Fiction book (2001) -
Well, so most of my work in the last six months or so has been on looking at the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
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A month later, he was again suffering from syphilis' characteristic skin lesions.
Academic text (1990) -
The people of Europe had not encountered syphilis before Columbus's sailors brought it back.
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Roger Lane attributed the low black birthrate in Philadelphia to a high incidence of syphilis associated with prostitution.
Academic text (1998) -
1932-1972: The U.S. Public Health Service sponsored the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, involving over 400 uninformed, poor black sharecroppers.
Academic text (1999) -
STD diagnoses included but were not limited to syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes, and HPV.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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9.9
An infection you can catch during sex that can cause serious health problems
A sexually transmitted infection caused by bacteria that can damage many body parts and pass from mother to baby
A serious disease spread by sex that causes long-term health problems
Compounds
- Specialized
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9.1
A late serious stage of an infection spread by sex that damages major organs like the brain and heart
- Specialized
The first stage of syphilis when a painless sore appears at the infection site
- Specialized
Second stage of an infection causing skin and mouth rashes that can spread to others
How Advanced
- Specialized
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9.1
- Specialized
45
4.8
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word syphilis comes from a Latin poem in the 1500s, where a shepherd named Syphilus is punished by the gods with a 'disease'. Because the poem used his name for that illness, doctors later used syphilis to mean the real disease passed during sex that we know today.