(n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Tertiary.

French disease Spanish pox VD acquired syphilis balanitis gangrenosa cerebral tabes chancre chancroid clap claps climatic bubo congenital syphilis constitutional syphilis dose dose of clap fifth venereal disease general paresis gonorrhea granuloma inguinale granuloma venereum great pox hard chancre latent syphilis locomotor ataxia morbus Gallicus paralytic dementia paresis pox pudendal ulcer simple chancre social disease soft chancre syph syphilitic meningoencephalitis tabes tabes dorsales tertiary syphilis tropical bubo venereal disease