Syphilis transmitted prenatally by the mother to the fetus. Congenital syphilis may lead to Hutchinson’s incisors, mulberry molars, or rhagades. See also chancre; gumma; incisors, Hutchinson’s; molar, mulberry; patch, mucous; and Treponema pallidum.

Congenital syphilis. (Regezi/Sciubba/Jordan, 2003)

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