NOUN
- a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
How To Use syph In A Sentence
- Like Flaubert, Daudet was a syphilitic, boasting unchivalrously that he'd caught the disease from ‘a lady from the top drawer’.
- The spirochaete responsible for syphilis was only isolated in 1905 by the German zoologist Fritz Schaudinn.
- You feel like Sisyphus - condemned to roll that same damn rock up the same damn hill for all eternity, only to watch it roll back down inches from the top.
- Those who have positive results for serological test for syphilis should submit medical treatment certificate.
- Davenant's face was disfigured—his nose had been eaten away—by the mercury vapor he inhaled as a treatment for a case of syphilis. Pens at the Ready
- This difficult-to-treat strain, called neurosyphilis, can cause blindness and stroke, and a CDC researcher said that it's spreading among this cohort because, although they're already HIV-positive, they are not using condoms. Gabriel Rotello: Deadly Error Alert: Andrew Sullivan's Latest AIDS Fantasy
- Many observers have noticed that negroes become several degrees lighter after syphilization; but no definite relation between syphilis and leukoderma has yet been demonstrated in this race. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- Traditionally, screening for syphilis infection is a two-step process that involves an initial nontreponemal test (VDRL or RPR) followed by a confirmatory treponemal test (FTA-ABS or TP-PA).
- The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight.
- Syph'lis" -- at which he corrects them with offended majesty The Enormous Room
