VENEREAL DISEASE
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 contact
Familiarity information: VENEREAL DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• VENEREAL DISEASE (noun)
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 ("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)
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)
