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VENEREAL DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does venereal disease mean? 

VENEREAL DISEASE (noun)
  The noun VENEREAL DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contactplay

  Familiarity information: VENEREAL DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VENEREAL DISEASE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

Cupid's disease; Cupid's itch; dose; sexually transmitted disease; social disease; STD; VD; venereal disease; venereal infection; Venus's curse

Hypernyms ("venereal disease" is a kind of...):

contagion; contagious disease (any disease easily transmitted by contact)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "venereal disease"):

genital herpes; herpes genitalis (an infection caused by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) that is usually transmitted by sexual contact; marked by recurrent attacks of painful eruptions on the skin and mucous membranes of the genital area)

clap; gonorrhea; gonorrhoea (a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra)

granuloma inguinale; granuloma venereum (a venereal disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Calymmatobacterium; characterized by a pimply rash of the skin in the genital and groin region)

lues; lues venerea; pox; syph; syphilis (a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta))

LGV; lymphogranuloma venereum; lymphopathia venereum (infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium; transmitted by sexual contact; characterized by genital lesions and swelling of lymph nodes in the groin)

chlamydia (a sexually transmitted infection caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia)


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