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Lues

Disease, especially of a contagious kind.

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Broader term 1

Dose 76% connected

The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Derivationally related 2

Syphilitic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to syphilis; of the nature of syphilis; affected with syphilis.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Syphilitic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to syphilis; of the nature of syphilis; affected with syphilis.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Component part 1

Chancre 70% connected

A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, in…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 2

Pox 92% connected

Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken po…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Syphilis 92% connected

The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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