Syphilis: alternatives and connections

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Syphilis

The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.

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Dose 76% connected

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

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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…

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Lues 92% connected

Disease, especially of a contagious kind.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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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…

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