lues : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: lues	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for lues
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lues n a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) Synonym(s): syphilis, syph, pox, lues venerea, lues
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Lues \[d8]Lu"es\, n. [L.] (Med.) Disease, especially of a contagious kind. {Lues venerea}, syphilis; -- called also simply {lues}.