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Venereal disease   /vənˈɪriəl dɪzˈiz/   Listen
Venereal disease

noun
1.
A communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact.  Synonyms: Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, dose, sexually transmitted disease, social disease, STD, VD, venereal infection, Venus's curse.






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"Venereal disease" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Venereal Disease and Its Evil Results—Present Reprehensible Exaggerations of Extent of Venereal Disease—Erroneous and Ridiculous Statements of "Reformers"—Senseless Fear of Marriage in Girls Due to Lurid Exaggerations—Study by Woman Psychologist Reveals Harmful Results of Exaggerated ...
— Woman - Her Sex and Love Life • William J. Robinson

... often observed in association with colds and febrile and lung diseases. Malaria, digestive disturbance, and nervous disorders are not infrequently predisposing factors. Herpes progenitalis is said to occur more frequently in those who have previously had some venereal disease, especially gonorrh[oe]a, but this is questionable. It ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon

... that she had spoken the truth through all her interrogations. Some supplementary questions were answered by her to the effect that she knew, during her marriage, that her husband had at one time suffered from venereal disease; and that latterly there had been recrudescences of the affection, together with the hernia already mentioned, for which her husband ...
— She Stands Accused • Victor MacClure

... Probably this was the first recognition by the New Zealand Government of contraceptives. This decision by the Army was accepted by society, not without misgivings, on the basis that it was much more important to guard against the spread of venereal disease than to endeavour to enforce continence among the troops. Society was obliged to choose between two evils, and it chose what it regarded as the lesser. Contraceptives thereafter came into common use, are now purchased ...
— Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents - The Mazengarb Report (1954) • Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.

... recover; but we mean inherent diseases, which are permanent. The science of pathology teaches what these are. They are manifold, such as diseases whereby the whole body is so far infected that the contagion may prove fatal; of this nature are malignant and pestilential fevers, leprosies, the venereal disease, gangrenes, cancers, and the like; also diseases whereby the whole body is so far weighed down, as to admit of no consociability, and from which exhale dangerous effluvia and noxious vapors, whether from the surface of the body, or from its inward parts, in particular from the stomach and ...
— The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love • Emanuel Swedenborg



Words linked to "Venereal disease" :   contagious disease, pox, granuloma inguinale, Venus's curse, social disease, gonorrhoea, genital herpes, herpes genitalis, granuloma venereum, syph, lymphopathia venereum, syphilis, chlamydia, sexually transmitted disease, LGV, lymphogranuloma venereum, contagion, clap, lues venerea, lues, gonorrhea



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