Meaning & use
Lues
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A medical term for syphilis, a sexually transmitted bacterial infection.
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The old medical chart listed the patient's diagnosis simply as 'lues.'
Historical texts sometimes refer to syphilis outbreaks using the Latin term lues.
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Borrowed from Latin 'lues,' meaning 'plague' or 'pestilence'; now mostly found in older or specialized medical writing.
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