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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; sexually transmitted disease; social disease; VD; venereal disease; venereal infection; Venus's curse; dose Hypernyms ("sexually transmitted disease" is a kind of...): contagion; contagious disease (any disease easily transmitted by contact) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sexually transmitted 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) 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) "Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today." (English proverb) "The stripes of a tiger are on the outside; the stripes of a person are on the inside." (Bhutanese proverb) "Every disease has a medicine except for death." (Arabic proverb) "A cheeky person owns half the world" (Dutch proverb) Useful links: What does contagion mean? clap definition What does granuloma venereum mean? syph definition What does LGV mean?
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