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 Jackson, Chevalier
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 Walsh, James J.
Is not the lack thereof a felonious deformity, yea, the grimmest feature of the lues confirmata of statute heresy?
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Lupoid laryngeal tuberculosis so much resembles lues that both the therapeutic test and biopsy may be required for certainty.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
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 Jackson, Chevalier
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