neurosyphilis
IPA: nˈʊroʊsˈɪfʌɫɪs
noun
- (pathology) A syphilis infection affecting the nervous system.
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Examples of "neurosyphilis" in Sentences
- But in the early 1880s the syphilis returned in the form of a neurosyphilis called tabes dorsalis.
- Tertiary Neurosyphilis – Tertiary neurosyphilis, is the most interesting form of syphilis from a cultural point of view.
- His popularity in the United States was derived in part from the widespread preoccupation with the problems associated with neurosyphilis.
- In an important study of the disease at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, E. E. Southard and Harry C. Solomon described and analyzed more than a hundred cases of neurosyphilis.
- Compound 606 had secretly been tested in patients in the hospital wards of St. Petersburg, then retested in patients with neurosyphilis at the Magdeburg Hospital—each time with remarkable success.
- This difficult-to-treat strain, called neurosyphilis, can cause blindness and stroke, and a CDC researcher said that it's spreading among this cohort because, although they're already HIV-positive, they are not using condoms.
- Some researchers worry that if core groups of sero-sorting positive men stir up epidemics of multiple drug resistant strains of HIV and other difficult-to-treat STDs like neurosyphilis and then occasionally have sex with negative men -- watch out.
- The letter would further state that he is a registered Democrat and he should therefore be given a “pass” so that he could continue his many business ventures in the great city of Chicago, rather than die of cardiac arrest (possibly associated with the complications of third-stage neurosyphilis) 8 years after completing his sentence for tax evasion at the federal prison located on the island of Alcatraz. pseudonymous in nc Says:
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