Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context disease English) Any of various diseases that are usually contracted through sexual contact.
WordNet
n. a communicable disease transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact [syn: venereal disease, VD, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse]
Usage examples of "sexually transmitted disease".
Years later, he would go through a time of worry when he thought he had a sexually transmitted disease that turned out to be gout.
Over dinner one night at a quiet Japanese restaurant in Patpong, sandwiched between two go-go bars, he told me about the spread of sexually transmitted disease.
A sexually transmitted disease that affects the brain and drives its victims insane.
And she thought she could make a difference in people's lives by bringing topics like sexually transmitted disease and healthy physical relationships out of the closet and onto the airwaves.
Also, at first, the sexually transmitted disease protection mechanism had failed in a spectacular manner.
Or tracks can be bored teenagers looking for a place to smoke some weed or pass along some sexually transmitted disease, but whatever it was I figured it was my job to know.
Nicole put the tape into the hefty but purportedly portable cassette and CD player on the mantelpiece, momentarily nervous that Parlabane's geriatric tape would give it the audio equivalent of a sexually transmitted disease.
The United States currently leads the developed nations in teen birth and sexually transmitted disease rates.
AIDS is primarily a sexually transmitted disease, but every now and then it pops up in the blood supply.