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syphilosis

syphilosis noun: syphilitic disease.

Noun

syphilosis (uncountable)

  1. syphilitic disease

Origin of syphilosis

From syphilo- + -osis.

Questions about syphilosis

What does syphilosis mean?
Syphilosis means syphilitic disease.
What part of speech is syphilosis?
Syphilosis is a noun.

Words near syphilosis in the dictionary

  1. syphilophobe
  2. syphilophobes
  3. syphilophobia
  4. syphilophobias
  5. syphilophobic
  6. syphilosis
  7. syphilous
  8. syphon
  9. syphon the python
  10. syphonage
  11. syphonal

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