| 单词 | syphilis |
| 释义 | syphilis /sif"euh lis/, n. Pathol. a chronic infectious disease, caused by a spirochete, Treponema pallidum, usually venereal in origin but often congenital, and affecting almost any organ or tissue in the body, esp. the genitals, skin, mucous membranes, aorta, brain, liver, bones, and nerves. Cf. primary syphilis, secondary syphilis, tertiary syphilis. [ < NL, coined by Giovanni Fracastoro (1478-1553), Italian physician and poet, in his 1530 Latin poem Syphilis, sive morbus Gallicus ("Syphilis, or the French Disease"), an early account of syphilis] |
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