0 suffering from or caused by syphilis (= a disease spread by sexual activity):
1 someone who has syphilis:
the wife of a syphiltic
Some 10 per cent of patients with late, untreated syphilis will go on to develop syphilitic complications involving the heart and major blood-vessels.
The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease.
These stigmata are not invariable and many congenital syphilitics bear only positive blood tests as evidence of their congenital disease.
