tertiary syphilis
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tertiary syphilis
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Manet’s last years were wracked with pain as he suffered the debilitating effects of the tertiary syphilis he certainly knew would kill him.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2019
By the time Nietzsche lost his wits, tertiary syphilis had undergone a transmutation, infecting the brain and causing paralysis alongside mental disintegration.
From The Guardian • May 17, 2013
At the Metropolitan, the urbane, formal mastery of Manet When Edouard Manet died of tertiary syphilis in 1883 at the age of 51, Emile Zola and Claude Monet helped carry his coffin to the grave.
From Time Magazine Archive
He died of tertiary syphilis, which he may have inherited from his eminently respectable father, who wanted him to do something more respectable than painting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Paresis, locomotor ataxy and paralysis agitans are not, as is usually assumed, due to secondary and tertiary syphilis, but to the mercury administered for the cure of luetic and other diseases.
From Nature Cure by Lindlahr, Henry
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