myelosyphilis

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Etymology[edit]

From myelo- +‎ syphilis.

Noun[edit]

myelosyphilis (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, archaic) Syphilis of the spinal cord: a form of neurosyphilis (today the diagnosis would be neurosyphilis, as the implication that the rest of the central nervous system is spared is baseless).

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