Definition of Syphiloid

1. a. Resembling syphilis.

Definition of Syphiloid

1. Adjective. (medicine) Resembling syphilis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Syphiloid

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Syphiloid

syphilide
syphilides
syphilises
syphilitic
syphilitically
syphilitics
syphilization
syphilizations
syphilize
syphilized
syphilizes
syphilizing
syphiloderm
syphiloderms
syphiloid (current term)
syphilological
syphilologist
syphilologists
syphilology
syphilophobia
syphon
syphon the python
syphoned
syphoning
syphons
syphs
syping
syrah
syrahs

Literary usage of Syphiloid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1837)
"... Oder das Scandinavische syphiloid. ... or the Scandinavian syphiloid Disease, delineated from Scandinavian sources of information. ..."

2. Outlines of the Pathology and Treatment of Syphilis and Allied Venereal Diseases by Hermann Zeissl, Maximilian von Zeissl (1886)
"... or syphiloid Disease. During the last century, and until quite recently, attention was attracted to a peculiar form of disease that appeared like a pest ..."

3. Treatise on Diseases of the Skin: Founded on New Researches in Pathological by Pierre François Olive Rayer (1833)
"Lastly, syphiloid disease may be complicated with one, or more, acute or chronic affections of the organs of digestion, respiration, or of the osseous ..."

4. On Diseases of the Skin, Including the Exanthemata by Ferdinand Hebra, Charles Hilton Fagge, Philip Henry Pye-Smith, Moriz Kaposi (1875)
"... syphiloid, ^f and a whole series of similar names for endemic diseases have been applied indiscriminately to all sorts of chronic affections of the skin ..."

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