单词 | venereal syphilis |
释义 | > as lemmasvenereal syphilis a. Also venereal syphilis: a disease, transmitted mainly by sexual contact, which is characterized initially by the development of a chancre (ulcerated sore) on the skin or a mucous membrane, usually of the genitals, and later by systemic symptoms, and which is caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum; (as a count noun) an instance or case of this disease. In early use also: †any of various other sexually transmitted diseases confused with this, including gonorrhoea and chancroid (obsolete).Three stages of the untreated disease are distinguished, of which the first (primary syphilis) is that of the chancre. The next (secondary syphilis) occurs after spread of bacteria via the bloodstream, and is characterized by generalized rash and lymph node enlargement. In a proportion of infected persons, the third stage (tertiary syphilis) develops after a long latent period, and is characterized by destructive lesions of the skin and bones and by involvement of many other organs, esp. the brain and spinal cord (in the form of general paresis and tabes dorsalis) and the aorta (aortitis and aneurysm formation). Cf. primary adj. 6, secondary adj. 5f, tertiary adj. 4.The disease can also be transmitted from an infected mother to the fetus during pregnancy, resulting in congenital syphilis in the child. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [noun] > syphilis foul evila1398 grandgore1497 French disease1503 French pox1503 pox1503 great pocka1519 great pox1529 morbus gallicus1543 gore1554 marbles1592 verol1596 Spanish pox1600 verola1600 the foul evil1607 bube1608 grincome1608 Neapolitan1631 lues1634 scabbado1651 venereal syphilis1653 foul disease1680 gout1694 syphilid1829 syphiloid1833 syphiloderma1850 vaccino-syphilis1868 neurosyphilis1878 old ral1878 syph1914 bejel1928 cosmic disease- 1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations lxxii. 550 Some Diseases also produce their like in other subjects; as the Leprosie, the Gout, Syphilis, or French-Pox, and so forth. 1676 W. Harris tr. N. de Blégny New & Curious Observ. Venereal Dis. i. i. 2 The Poets have given it the Name of Siphilis, because they have pretended a Shepherd of that Name was first infected with it. But it is now generally known in this part of the World under the Names of the Venereal Disease, or the Pox. 1686 N. Tate (title) Syphilis; or, a poetical history of the French disease. 1703 J. Moyle Experienced Chirurgion xxxvi. 109 But first let me trace the procedure of these Contagious Atoms, until it becomes a confirmed Siphylis. 1768 J. Hill Acct. Yaws in Cases Surg. (1772) 249 From the above authorities it appears, that the distemper called the venereal syphilis, or French pox, in France, Germany, Holland, England, and Ireland, is the very same disease which our country-people call the sibbens. 1777 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic I. 224 We must refer to the consideration of scrophula, syphilis, or other diseases with which this Ophthalmia may be connected. 1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 85 Surgeons and nurses may by accident inoculate themselves with syphilis, in places appropriated for the reception of venereal patients. 1861 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 28 296 Primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis had existed in 6 patients;..congenital syphilis in 2. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. i. 247 Syphilis has occasionally prevailed in the form of widespread and severe epidemics. 1892 Times & Reg. (U.S.) 15 Oct. 422/1 The early cerebro spinal syphilises are those that develop during the virulent period of the disorder—that is, during the first two or three years after infection. 1916 Jrnl. Cutaneous Dis. 34 651 As we frequently observe, the man with a syphilis of ten years' duration who contracts marriage, may be the father of both healthy and syphilitic children. 1970 New Scientist 19 Mar. 543/1 Venereal syphilis of adults is rare in tropical regions where the endemic treponematoses, yaws and pinta, prevail. 1984 S. Terkel Good War (1985) i. v. 124 There were lots of high school graduates with syphilis who didn't know they had it. 2006 A. Kuczynski Beauty Junkies iv. 67 The so-called saddle nose was a caved-in nose that was the result of cartilage eaten away by syphilis. < as lemmas |
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