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parasyphilis

parasyphilis noun: any form of neurosyphilis that formerly was known to be correlated with late-stage syphilis but was misapprehended to be distinct from it.

Noun

parasyphilis (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Any form of neurosyphilis that formerly was known to be correlated with late-stage syphilis but was misapprehended to be distinct from it.

Origin of parasyphilis

From para- + syphilis.

Words formed from parasyphilis

Questions about parasyphilis

What does parasyphilis mean?
Parasyphilis means any form of neurosyphilis that formerly was known to be correlated with late-stage syphilis but was misapprehended to be distinct from it.
What part of speech is parasyphilis?
Parasyphilis is a noun.

Words near parasyphilis in the dictionary

  1. parasynthesis
  2. parasyntheta
  3. parasynthetic
  4. parasynthetically
  5. parasyntheton
  6. parasyphilis
  7. parasyphilitic
  8. parasystole
  9. parasystoles
  10. parasystolic
  11. paratabulation

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