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venereal disease

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sexually transmitted disease.

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  • noun pathology Any of several contagious diseases, such as syphilis and gonorrhea, contracted through sexual intercourse.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact

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synonyms (168)

Words with the same meaning

  1. African lethargy
  2. Asiatic cholera
  3. Chagres fever
  4. French disease
  5. German measles
  6. Haverhill fever
  7. Spanish pox
  8. VD
  9. acquired syphilis
  10. acute articular rheumatism
  11. ague
  12. alkali disease
  13. amebiasis
  14. amebic dysentery
  15. anthrax
  16. bacillary dysentery
  17. balanitis gangrenosa
  18. bastard measles
  19. black death
  20. black fever
  21. blackwater fever
  22. breakbone fever
  23. brucellosis
  24. bubonic plague
  25. cachectic fever
  26. cerebral rheumatism
  27. cerebral tabes
  28. chancre
  29. chancroid
  30. chicken pox
  31. cholera
  32. clap
  33. claps
  34. climatic bubo
  35. congenital syphilis
  36. constitutional syphilis
  37. cowpox
  38. dandy fever
  39. deer fly fever
  40. dengue
  41. dengue fever
  42. diphtheria
  43. dose
  44. dose of clap
  45. dumdum fever
  46. dysentery
  47. elephantiasis
  48. encephalitis lethargica
  49. enteric fever
  50. erysipelas
  51. famine fever
  52. fifth venereal disease
  53. five-day fever
  54. flu
  55. frambesia
  56. general paresis
  57. glandular fever
  58. gonorrhea
  59. granuloma inguinale
  60. granuloma venereum
  61. great pox
  62. grippe
  63. hansenosis
  64. hard chancre
  65. hepatitis
  66. herpes
  67. herpes simplex
  68. herpes zoster
  69. histoplasmosis
  70. hookworm
  71. hydrophobia
  72. infantile paralysis
  73. infectious mononucleosis
  74. inflammatory rheumatism
  75. influenza
  76. jail fever
  77. jungle rot
  78. kala azar
  79. kissing disease
  80. latent syphilis
  81. lepra
  82. leprosy
  83. leptospirosis
  84. loa loa
  85. loaiasis
  86. lockjaw
  87. locomotor ataxia
  88. madness
  89. malaria
  90. malarial fever
  91. marsh fever
  92. measles
  93. meningitis
  94. milzbrand
  95. morbus Gallicus
  96. mumps
  97. ornithosis
  98. osteomyelitis
  99. paralytic dementia
  100. paratyphoid fever
  101. paresis
  102. parotitis
  103. parrot fever
  104. pertussis
  105. pneumonia
  106. polio
  107. poliomyelitis
  108. polyarthritis rheumatism
  109. ponos
  110. pox
  111. psittacosis
  112. pudendal ulcer
  113. rabbit fever
  114. rabies
  115. rat-bite fever
  116. relapsing fever
  117. rheumatic fever
  118. rickettsialpox
  119. ringworm
  120. rubella
  121. rubeola
  122. scarlatina
  123. scarlet fever
  124. schistosomiasis
  125. septic sore throat
  126. sexually transmitted disease
  127. sexually transmitted infection
  128. shingles
  129. simple chancre
  130. sleeping sickness
  131. sleepy sickness
  132. smallpox
  133. snail fever
  134. social disease
  135. soft chancre
  136. splenic fever
  137. spotted fever
  138. strep throat
  139. swamp fever
  140. syph
  141. syphilis
  142. syphilitic meningoencephalitis
  143. tabes
  144. tabes dorsales
  145. tertiary syphilis
  146. tetanus
  147. thrush
  148. tinea
  149. trench fever
  150. trench mouth
  151. tropical bubo
  152. tuberculosis
  153. tularemia
  154. typhoid
  155. typhoid fever
  156. typhus
  157. typhus fever
  158. undulant fever
  159. vaccinia
  160. varicella
  161. variola
  162. viral dysentery
  163. whooping cough
  164. yaws
  165. yellow fever
  166. yellow jack
  167. zona
  168. zoster

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. contagion
  2. contagious disease

hyponyms (16)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. chlamydia
  2. clap
  3. genital herpes
  4. gonorrhea
  5. gonorrhoea
  6. granuloma inguinale
  7. granuloma venereum
  8. herpes genitalis
  9. lgv
  10. lues
  11. lues venerea
  12. lymphogranuloma venereum
  13. lymphopathia venereum
  14. pox
  15. syph
  16. syphilis

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Cross-references

  1. AIDS

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