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Definition of Syphilis
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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. Related Definitions:
And, As, By, Chronic, Communicated, Disease, Hereditary, In, Infectious, Intercourse, Known, Occurring, Or, Pox, Primary, Secondary, See, Sexual, Specific, Syphilis, Tertiary, The, Three, Transmission, Under, Venereal |
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Syphilis Quotations
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. Karl Kraus It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Andre Gide Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. Peter Lewis Allen Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind. Alexis Carrel |
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Syphilis Translations
syphilis in French is syphilis syphilis in Italian is lue syphilis in Swedish is syfilis |
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