Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed in syphilology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One skilled in syphilology.
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- noun A specialist in
syphilology .
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Examples
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But, on the whole, they furnish no proof at all, and no syphilologist, he concludes, has ever succeeded in demonstrating that syphilis was known in antiquity.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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It is but seventy years ago since Ricord, the great French syphilologist, following Bassereau, first taught the complete independence of syphilis both from gonorrhoea and soft chancre, at the same time expounding clearly the three stages, primary, secondary and tertiary, through which syphilitic manifestations tend to pass, while the full extent of tertiary syphilitic symptoms is scarcely yet grasped, and it is only to-day beginning to be generally realized that two of the most prevalent and serious diseases of the brain and nervous system -- general paralysis and tabes dorsalis or locomotor ataxia -- have their predominant though not sole and exclusive cause in the invasion of the syphilitic poison many years before.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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