lues
Americannoun
noun
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any venereal disease
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a pestilence
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of lues
1625–35; < New Latin, special use of Latin luēs plague, contagion
Example Sentences
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Esophagoscopic appearances of lues are not always characteristic.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
They may be due to trauma, lues, tuberculosis, enteric fever, pneumonia, influenza, etc.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
Delicta, majorum, immeritus lues, if memory had not failed me, I might have quoted that line often and appropriately enough.
From Border and Bastille by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
He detailed some cases of extirpatio uteri for procidentia and developed the technique of inunctions of mercury for lues.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
It is only when they have taken to bragging that the lues Napoleonica has set in.
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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