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ary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.Treponema pallidum. Usu. tretable with penicillin or other beta-lactam antibiotics.

Efficacious against syphilis. -- n.

An inflammation, with enlargement, of a limphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.

A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre. Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.

Caused by a morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis.

Disease, especially of a contagious kind. Lues venerea, syphilis; -- called also simply lues.

d.), elevated patches found in the mucous membranes of the mouth and anus, usually due to syphilis. -- Mucous tissue (Anat.), a form of connective tissue in an early stage of development, found in the umbilical cord and in the embryo, and also in certain tumors called myxomata.

To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

ich only one acid hydrogen atom has been replaced by a base or basic radical. -- Primary syphilis (Med.), the initial stage of syphilis, including the period from the development of the original lesion or chancre to the first manifestation of symptoms indicative of general constitutional infection. -- Primary union (…

arlet fever. (b) Occuring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis. Secondary accent. See the Note under Accent, n., 1. -- Secondary age. (Geol.) The Mesozoic age, or age before the Tertiary. See Mesozoic, and Note under Age, n., 8. -- Secondary alcohol (Chem.), any one of a series of…

Syphilis.

A cutaneous eruption due to syphilis.

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

To inoculate with syphilis.

A cutaneous affection due to syphilis.

Of or pertaining to the cutaneous manifestations of syphilis.

Resembling syphilis.

That branch of medicine which treats of syphilis.

of that period; -- called also Tertiary formation. See the Chart of Geology. -- Tertiary syphilis (Med.), the third and last stage of syphilis, in which it invades the bones and internal organs.

The venereal disease; syphilis.