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English
Adjective
syphilitic (not comparable)
- (pathology) Of, relating to, or infected with syphilis.
1988 April 16, Mike Smith, “AIDS and Syphilis”, in Gay Community News, page 5:One can try hunting syphilitic treponemes directly by having skin irregularities […] biopsied and subjected to a silver-staining test.
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Noun
syphilitic (plural syphilitics)
- A person with syphilis.
1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 337:It was a syphilitic who lived alone in the shanty between the hole and the railroad yard, coming up to the street only to beg money for food and disinfectant with which to soak his rags.
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someone who is infected with syphilis
Interlingua
Adjective
syphilitic (not comparable)
- syphilitic