Definitions for lues

lues lu·es

Spelling: [loo-eez]
IPA: /ˈlu iz/

Lues is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in lues (elsu).

Definitions for lues

noun

  1. syphilis.

Origin of lues

1625-35; New Latin, special use of Latin luēs plague, contagion

Examples for lues

Miscarriages in a woman should arouse the suspicion of lues in her husband.

lues Venerea keeps its place in the tables, and counts its score or two of deaths annually.

lues testiculorum destrui potest substantiam testiculorum nisi morbus mature sanetur, et impotentia potest esse absoluta.

The solution of the difficulty is to be looked for in the inquiries after still earlier notices of the lues venerea.

He detailed some cases of extirpatio uteri for procidentia and developed the technique of inunctions of mercury for lues.

Some even who had been four or five years diseased with the lues became quite cured.

He had several gonorrhœal infections, the first one at the age of fifteen; was infected with lues at a very early age.

It is only when they have taken to bragging that the lues Napoleonica has set in.

It is not so much a test for lues in the patient as of credulity in the doctor.

Wishing to avoid the lues biographica, I assumed a somewhat too purely critical attitude while writing.

Word Value for lues
Scrable

4

Words with friends

6

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