syphiloidadj.n.

1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 435 The syphilitic and the syphiloid are the only new species of ulcers with which..we have become acquainted.

1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxvii. 344 Peculiar forms of diseases which we are forced to look upon as syphiloid.

1892 Lancet 11 June 1319/2 Much interest, from a comparative pathologist's point of view, attaches to..a syphiloid disorder affecting horses.

1921 Brit. Jrnl. Surg. 8 260 The following clinical types [of Baghdad boil or cutaneous leishmaniasis] can be recognized: the papule, the rounded ulcer, psoriaform, lupoid, syphiloid, epithelioma-like.

1949 I. Aird Compan. Surg. Stud. ix. 185 In the French form of the disease [sc. sporotrichosis] there is a generalized outcrop of syphiloid ulcers.

2004 D. E. Manuel Walking Paris Hospitals 111 (note) He [sc. Hooper] does include a reference to syphiloid conditions such as bastard pox.

1833 W. B. Dickinson tr. P. Rayer Treat. Dis. Skin 213 The ulcers of lupus, elephantiasis, and syphiloids, never cause pain similar to that attendant on cancerous ulcers.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 253 An attempt has recently been made to claim the Tropical disease Yaws as a malady which while distinct from syphilis, yet resembles it..; and to construct a family of ‘Syphiloids’.

1947 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 June 889/2 The main theme is that syphilis, yaws, and the ‘syphiloids’ are caused by the same species of treponema.

1961 Arch. Internal Med. 108 1 Certain disease syndromes of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as sibbens (Scotland), radesyge (Scandinavia), and skerljevo (Bosnia), were called syphiloids because—while resembling syphilis in some respects—they were nonvenereal and rural, propagated endemically, chiefly among children.