Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
syphilis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Syphilis.
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- noun Archaic form of
syphilis .
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Examples
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But the case is not in point since congenital siphilis [tr. note: sic] is, properly, due to a prenatal infection, the bacillus entering the very germ-plasm of the human ovum (egg).
Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Theodore Graebner 1913
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_* [[* The undoubted transmission of siphilis [tr. note: sic] to off-spring might be regarded as a case of transmission of an acquired characteristic.
Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Theodore Graebner 1913
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