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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sexually transmitted disease.
- noun A disease having its highest incidence among socioeconomic groups predisposed to it by a given set of adverse living or working conditions.
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- noun a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact
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