/'sɪfɪlɪs; `sɪflɪs/
n [U] (also the pox) infectious disease passed from one person to another by sexual contact 梅毒.

n[U]
[Date: 1700-1800; Language: Modern Latin;Origin: Syphilus, main character in the 16th-century poem Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus 'Syphilis or the French disease' by Girolamo Fracastoro]
a very serious disease that is passed from one person to another during sexual activity
>syphilitic [,sɪfɪ'lɪtɪk/