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 the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap.
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n. (alternative spelling of gonorrhea English)
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Usage examples of "gonorrhoea".
Compelling physical evidence - photos, for example, or diaries, or gonorrhoea or chlamydia in the child - have in some cases come to light.
Astoria, but I do know that gonorrhoea is an intractable disease, especially of women.
Ethel, nearly dead of tuberculosis, or Astoria here, once suffering the agony of raging gonorrhoea, or Little Red, slated to die within the year from parasitic infection.
Your new lover has syphilis, gonorrhoea, and four other venereal diseases for which the queen has no English names.
It will cure virulent syphilis and gonorrhoea -- and the two dozen or more other venereal diseases Cathy says humans give each other but have yet to discover -- in less than a day.
It is still possible to say which of the five spermatic types is associated with gonorrhoea and syphilis.
Until they met the Russian fur-trader who, half a century previously, had introduced into the tribe the strain of gonorrhoea which accounted for their historically low birth-rate at this time, they had never encountered a foreigner -- that is, one whose terms of reference were not their own terms.
He and Father were arrested in Chicago after doing considerable property damage in a whorehouse there, and Father was found to have gonorrhoea, and so on.
Father was sent to relatives in Vienna, to have his gonorrhoea treated and to enrol in the world-famous Academy of Fine Arts.
The Naples doctors treated me probably wrongly, since chronic gonorrhoea followed the acute attack.
But there is never any foolproof guarantee in these cases: so I caught gonorrhoea once again.
It has the traditional pattern of the victim running away from fate, only to be overtaken by it in a distant land, of the afflictions that the hero most fears and shuns - gonorrhoea and onanism - catching relentlessly up with him.
Bumstead and a number of other eminent authorities believe and teach that gonorrhoea may originate among women entirely virtuous in the ordinary sense of the term.
Napoleon, the man himself, suffered so badly from gonorrhoea and syphilis, he could barely pee.
Used for impotence in males, nocturnal emissions, gonorrhoea, gleet and incontinence of urine.