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lues
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lues has 1 sense
- lues(n = noun.state) lues venerea, pox, syph, syphilis - a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta); Array is a kind of cupid's disease, cupid's itch, dose, sexually transmitted disease, social disease, std, vd, venereal disease, venereal infection, venus's curse
has particulars: primary syphilis, secondary syphilis, tertiary syphilis, neurosyphilis
has parts: chancre
CIDE DICTIONARY
lues, n. [L.].
- Disease, especially of a contagious kind. [1913 Webster]
- syphilis; -- called also
Lues venerea . [1913 Webster]
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