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  • English Word Syphilis Definition 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.
  • English Word Syphilitic Definition Of or pertaining to syphilis; of the nature of syphilis; affected with syphilis.
  • English Word Syphilitic Definition A syphilitic patient.
  • English Word Syphilitically Definition In a syphilitic manner; with venereal disease.
  • English Word Syphilization Definition Inoculation with the syphilitic virus, especially when employed as a preventive measure, like vaccination.
  • English Word Syphilize Definition To inoculate with syphilis.
  • English Word Syphiloderm Definition A cutaneous affection due to syphilis.
  • English Word Syphilodermatous Definition Of or pertaining to the cutaneous manifestations of syphilis.
  • English Word Syphiloid Definition Resembling syphilis.
  • English Word Syphilologist Definition One skilled in syphilology.
  • English Word Syphilology Definition That branch of medicine which treats of syphilis.
  • English Word Syphon Definition See Syphon.
  • English Word Syracuse Definition A red wine of Italy.
  • English Word Syren Definition See Siren.
  • English Word Syriac Definition Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch.
  • English Word Syriac Definition The language of Syria; especially, the ancient language of that country.
  • English Word Syriacism Definition A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism.
  • English Word Syrian Definition Of or pertaining to Syria; Syriac.
  • English Word Syrian Definition A native of Syria.
  • English Word Syrianism Definition A Syrian idiom, or a peculiarity of the Syrian language; a Syriacism.
  • English Word Syriasm Definition A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism; a Syriacism.
  • English Word Syringa Definition A genus of plants; the lilac.
  • English Word Syringa Definition The mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.
  • English Word Syringe Definition A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.
  • English Word Syringe Definition To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.
  • English Word Syringe Definition To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
  • English Word Syringeal Definition Of or pertaining to the syrinx; as, the syringeal muscle.
  • English Word Syringed Definition of Syringe
  • English Word Syringes Definition of Syrinx
  • English Word Syringin Definition A glucoside found in the bark of the lilac (Syringa) and extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called also lilacin.