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
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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
Furthermore the transference of lues, tuberculosis, diphtheria, pneumonia, erysipelas and other infective diseases would be inevitable if sterile precautions were not taken.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
Wishing to avoid the lues biographica, I assumed a somewhat too purely critical attitude while writing.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
Macaulay has given to the usual complaint which distorts the vision of most biographers the name of lues Boswelliana.
From Samuel Johnson by Sir Leslie Stephen
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
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