/ English Dictionary

LUES VENEREA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)

Synonyms:

lues; lues venerea; pox; syph; syphilis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("lues venerea" is a kind of...):

Cupid's disease; Cupid's itch; dose; sexually transmitted disease; social disease; STD; VD; venereal disease; venereal infection; Venus's curse (a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact)

Meronyms (parts of "lues venerea"):

chancre (a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lues venerea"):

primary syphilis (the first stage; characterized by a chancre at the site of infection)

secondary syphilis (the second stage; characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane)

tertiary syphilis (the third stage; characterized by involvement of internal organs especially the brain and spinal cord as well as the heart and liver)

neurosyphilis (syphilis of the central nervous system)

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