lues
Americannoun
noun
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any venereal disease
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a pestilence
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Etymology
Origin of lues
1625–35; < New Latin, special use of Latin luēs plague, contagion
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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
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 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
Esophagoscopic appearances of lues are not always characteristic.
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
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