lues
Americannoun
noun
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any venereal disease
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a pestilence
Other Word Forms
- luetic adjective
- luetically adverb
Etymology
Origin of lues
1625–35; < New Latin, special use of Latin luēs plague, contagion
Example Sentences
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Illic summa tenebrarum lues, Ubi pedor ingens redolet extremum situm.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel
The diagnosis in these cases rests upon the exclusion of lues, and is rendered certain by the removal of a specimen for biopsy.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
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 Jackson, Chevalier
If no improvement is noticed lues is excluded.
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.
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