Crossword-Solution: SYPHILIS 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Word Word Type Definition
Syphilis n. 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.

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venereal disease 3 answers
bacterial disease 6 answers
SEXUALLY transmitted disease/infection, type of 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with SYPHILIS (5)

But the Samoans are, by all accounts, as fruitful as at first; by some accounts more so; and it is not seriously to be argued that the Samoans have escaped syphilis.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 2012
There was no history of syphilis nor of any eruptive fever in the mother, who died on the tenth day with tetanus.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called "Christian civilization," and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie.
Pagan & Christian Creeds Edward Carpenter 1998
Lancisi, one of the early students of disease of the heart, left an excellent monograph on the subject, and was the first to call special attention to the association of syphilis with cardio-vascular disease.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine William Osler 2006
The exceptions are apt to indicate, instead, the close relationship of this irresponsible and chance parenthood to the great social problems of feeble-mindedness, crime and syphilis.
The Pivot of Civilization Margaret Sanger 2008

Quotes with SYPHILIS (3)

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.''Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension o…
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
You don't want him," she said to the pink-haired girl. "He has syphilis." The girls stared. "Syphilis?""Five percent of people in America have it," said Ty helpfully." I do not have syphilis," Mark said angrily. "There are no sexually transmitted diseases in Faerieland!"”Sorry," Jules said. "You know how syphilis is. Attacks the brain.
Cassandra Clare Lady Midnight
Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.''Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.
Eloisa James When Beauty Tamed the Beast