neurosyphilisn.
/ˌnjʊərə(ʊ)ˈsɪfᵻlɪs/, U.S. /ˌn(j)ʊroʊˈsɪf(ə)lᵻs/; see also syphilis n. Medicine.
Syphilitic infection of the central nervous system.
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foul evila1398
grandgore1497
French disease1503
French pox1503
pox1503
great pocka1519
great pox1529
morbus gallicus1543
gore1554
marbles1592
verol1596
Spanish pox1600
verola1600
the foul evil1607
bube1608
grincome1608
Neapolitan1631
lues1634
scabbado1651
venereal syphilis1653
foul disease1680
gout1694
syphilid1829
syphiloid1833
syphiloderma1850
vaccino-syphilis1868
neurosyphilis1878
old ral1878
syph1914
bejel1928
cosmic disease-
1877 Med. Times & Gaz. 10 Nov. 511/1 Nerve-syphilis appears to affect with preference those persons in whom there is the neuropathic constitution.]
1878 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 98 278 Neuro-Syphilis.—As nervous diseases of syphilitic origin are more amenable to treatment than the corresponding idiopathic ones, a correct diagnosis may at times be sufficient to save a life otherwise lost.
1925 Science 18 Sept. 255/2 Ehrlich's preparations (arsphenamine and neo-arsphenamine) are of no value in neuro-syphilis.
1946 Nature 17 Aug. 243/2 Penicillin sodium in saline solution is effective to a greater or lesser degree in all aspects of neurosyphilis studied.
1974 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xiii. 6/1 In all forms of neurosyphilis the results of treatment depend on the number of neurones already destroyed.
1997 E. Hand Glimmering ii. ix. 180 The voices..must be the first stages of HIV dementia—or..neurosyphilis or cytomegalovirus encephalitis or the half dozen other kinds of madness that came with the territory where Martin spent his days.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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