Syphilis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SYPHILIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a venereal disease, also SYPH
• a chronic bacterial disease that is contracted chiefly by infection during sexual intercourse, but also congenitally by infection of a developing fetus.
• serious sexually transmitted disease
• 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.
• a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)

Words related to SYPHILIS

syph12 syphilises18 syphilitic20 syphilitically27 syphilitics21 syphiloid18

Words that contain SYPHILIS

syphilise17 syphilised19 syphilises18 syphilising20 neurosyphilis21 syphilisation21 syphilisations22 neurosyphilises23

How to use SYPHILIS in a sentence

• Do you know how many out of these twenty-eight survived? Three, sir! Three out of twenty-eight! Syphilis is above everything a murderer of children.
• It would suffice that people should know a little better what syphilis is.
• It is that syphilis is an imperious mistress, who only demands that one should recognize her power.
• The moral condition of Europe was signally illustrated when syphilis was introduced from the West Indies by the companions of Columbus.
• In proportion to its prevalence syphilis is not very deadly, yet it has been reckoned as the fourth killing disease.
• But syphilis is so frequently antecedent that a history of that infection may make certain the diagnosis when doubt exists.
• The above findings indicate unquestionably that he was suffering from cerebral syphilis.
• And scattered over the country, but especially virulent on the eastern districts along the Serbian frontier, was syphilis.
• And as has been shown, in the case of the three chief so-called racial poisons, alcohol, syphilis and lead, the evidence is not great.
• Such moralists, more loathsome than syphilis itself, may be left in the gathering gloom to the company of their ghastly creed.
• The body of the commonwealth becomes a mass of corruption, like a living carcass rotten with syphilis.
• The only serious taint was the secondary syphilis which the wife had inherited from her father.
• The last importation of the whites was syphilis, and by it they will probably be remembered for years to come.
• The abuse of alcohol is another fertile cause, but the changes produced in this are not so obvious as in the case of syphilis.
• Illegitimate births, formerly very rare, have multiplied, syphilis even has spread among the young.
• Many deaths ascribed to other causes are the direct consequence of syphilis.
• An interesting calculation as to the prevalence of syphilis in New Zealand has been made by Dr.

Similar words containing SYPHILI without suffix s

syphilise17 syphilize26 syphilised19 syphilises18 syphilitic20 syphilized28 syphilizes27 syphilising20 syphilitics21 syphilizing29 neurosyphilis21 syphilisation21 syphilization30 antisyphilitic24 syphilisations22 syphilitically27 syphilizations31 antisyphilitics25 neurosyphilises23

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