a. (sb.) Path. [f. SYPHILIS + -OID.] Resembling syphilis.
1813. J. Thomson, Lect. Inflam., 435. The syphilitic and the syphiloid are the only new species of ulcers with which … we have become acquainted.
1843. R. J. Graves, Syst. Clin. Med., xxvii. 344. Peculiar forms of diseases which we are forced to look upon as syphiloid.
B. sb. A syphiloid disease or affection.
1890. Billings, Nat. Med. Dict., Syphiloids..., name of a group of endemic diseases due to syphilis in a severe form, with complications.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 253, note. An attempt has recently been made to claim the Tropical disease Yaws as a malady which while distinct from syphilis, yet resembles it…; and to construct a family of ‘Syphiloids.’
