syphilitic periarteritis

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syphilitic periarteritis,

an inflammatory condition of the outer coat of one or more arteries occurring in tertiary syphilis and characterized by soft gummatous perivascular lesions infiltrated with lymphocytes and plasma cells. Also called periarteritis gummosa. See also syphilitic aortitis.

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