myelosyphilis
English
Etymology
From myelo- + syphilis.
Noun
myelosyphilis (uncountable)
- (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).
Hypernyms
- neurosyphilis
Related terms
- metasyphilis
- metasyphilitic
- parasyphilis
- parasyphilitic