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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gonorrhea
noun
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▪ 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 the same way that sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis and gonorrhea, are contagious.
▪ Only two cases of gonorrhea were reported in the first 19 months, compared with four a week previously.
▪ She even doubts he sought treatment for the gonorrhea she was diagnosed with early in pregnancy, which he surely has.
▪ The proportion of gay male gonorrhea sufferers at these clinics increased 74 percent between 1993 and 1996.
▪ Then they showed people who had gonorrhea and they.
▪ Yeast remedies are available over the counter, and a physician can prescribe antibiotics for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and others.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gonorrhea

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 the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gonorrhea

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 Gomorrah.

Wiktionary
gonorrhea

n. An STD caused by a species of bacteria (the gonococcus) that affects the mucous membrane of the genital and urinary tracts.

WordNet
gonorrhea

n. a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra [syn: gonorrhoea, clap]

Wikipedia
Gonorrhea

Gonorrhea, also spelled gonorrhoea, is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The usual symptoms in men are a burning with urination and discharge from the penis. Women have no symptoms about half the time or have vaginal discharge and pelvic pain. In both men and women, if gonorrhea is left untreated, it may spread locally, causing inflammation of the epididymis in men or pelvic inflammatory disease in women. Gonorrhea can also spread throughout the body and affect joints and heart valves.

Testing all women who are sexually active and less than 25 years of age each year is recommended. This same recommendation applies in men who have sex with men.

Gonorrhea can be prevented with the use of condoms. Treatment is usually with ceftriaxone, as resistance has developed to many previously used antibiotics. Ceftriaxone is typically given in combination with either azithromycin or doxycycline, as gonorrhea infections may occur along with chlamydia. Some strains of gonorrhea have begun showing resistance to this treatment. Retesting is recommended three months after treatment.

An estimated 78 to 88 million cases of gonorrhea occur each year, out of the 448 million new cases of curable STI – which also includes syphilis, chlamydia and trichomoniasis. Infections in women most commonly occur when they are young adults. In 2010, it caused about 900 deaths, down from 1,100 in 1990.

Gonorrhea (Lil Wayne song)

"'''Gonorrhea '''" is a promotional single by American rapper Lil Wayne featuring Young Money signee Drake, from his eighth studio album, I Am Not a Human Being. Upon the release of I Am Not a Human Being it debuted at number 17 on the US Hot 100.

It was certified Gold by the RIAA on March 16, 2012 for selling 500,000 digital copies. It has since been certified Platinum by the RIAA.

Usage examples of "gonorrhea".

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.