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A common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae
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gonorrhea
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also gonorrhoea , 1520s, from Late Latin gonorrhoia , from gonos "seed" (see gonad ) + rhoe "flow," from rhein "to flow" (see rheum ). Mucus discharge was mistaken for semen. In early records often Gomoria , etc., from folk etymology association with biblical ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gonorrhea \Gon`or*rhe"a\, Gonorrhoea \Gon`or*rh[oe]"a\, n. [L. gonorrhoea, Gr. ?; ? that which begets, semen, the genitals + ? to flow: cf. F. gonorrh['e]e.] (Med.) A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially ...
WordNet
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n. a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra [syn: gonorrhoea , clap ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bubonic plague, typhoid, polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis, syphilis and gonorrhea still afflict much of the world. ▪ But preventing 100 cases of gonorrhea within a core prevents an additional 4, 278 cases. ▪ It is contagious in ...
Wiktionary
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n. An STD caused by a species of bacteria (the gonococcus) that affects the mucous membrane of the genital and urinary tracts.
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Willy Eggers briefs him on the frontier traffic between Gross-Rosseln and Klein-Rosseln, he brings, because the Dulleck brothers in the hills of the upper Weser had nothing to offer him but country air and three-handed skat, a good case of urban and French-occupied gonorrhea.
By the way, while over a million Americans are HIV positive or have AIDS, 12 million more get other sexual diseases every year, including herpes, genital warts, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and others.
The failure to find a heart mate, the humiliation with Renee Vivi, the two nasty cases of gonorrhea, the disastrous meditative catatonia, the inability to learn French and German, his loneliness, his emptiness, his thwarted attempts to find and kill the bastard boy born of Phimie's womb: All these things and more, much more, were the hateful consequences of the vicious, vindictive voodoo of that hypocritical Christian.
The company physicians did not examine the sick but had them line up behind one another in the dispensaries and a nurse would put a pill the color of copper sulfate on their tongues, whether they had malaria, gonorrhea, or constipation.
There are many antibiotic uses of the cannabidiols, including treatment for gonorrhea.
That rhubarb was the Chinese or Turkish rhubarb (Rheum palmatum), which was ground to a powder and administered for the relief of diarrhea, gonorrhea, jaundice, liver disease, and other maladies.
Back at the time of the Second World War they came up with the sulfa drugs and for a while sulfa would knock gonorrhea within a day or so, and I think maybe even syphilis.
Back at the time of the Second World War they came up with the sulfa drugs and for a while sulfa would knock gonorrhea within a day or so, and I think maybe even syphlis.