merˈcurio-ˈsyphilis Path. rare.
[f. mercurio- taken as combining form of Mercury.]
A diseased condition supposed to be caused in part by syphilis and in part by the mercury employed for its cure. Hence merˈcurio-syphiˈlitic a., affected by mercurio-syphilis.
| 1829 R. Christison Treat. Poisons (1832) 369 An ulcerated sore-throat of the mercurio-syphilitic kind. a 1882 ― in Life I. vi. 141 Mercurio-syphilis and mercurial cachexy had no place in his nosology. |