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Gonorrhoea   Listen
noun
gonorrhoea, gonorrhea  n.  (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. It is caused by infection with the bacterium Neiseria gonorrheae, and is commonly transmitted by sexual intercourse.






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"Gonorrhoea" Quotes from Famous Books



... laboratory study, such as has been given it during the past fifteen years, to put us where we could appeal to every intelligent man and woman to enlist in a brilliantly promising campaign. For a time syphilis was confused with gonorrhea, and there could be no better proof of the need for separating the two in our minds today than to study the way in which this confusion set back progress in our knowledge of syphilis. John Hunter, who fathered the idea of the identity of ...
— The Third Great Plague - A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People • John H. Stokes



Words linked to "Gonorrhoea" :   sexually transmitted disease, social disease, venereal disease, STD, Cupid's itch, Venus's curse



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