venereal+disease
31disease — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Condition of ill health Nouns 1. disease, illness, sickness, ailment, ailing; morbidity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; functional disorder. 2. condition, affliction,… …
32venereal — /vəˈnɪəriəl/ (say vuh nearreeuhl) adjective 1. (of a disease or infection) transmitted through sexual intercourse or contact: venereal disease. 2. infected with or suffering from venereal disease. 3. Obsolete adapted to the cure of such disease:… …
33venereal infection — noun a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact • Syn: ↑venereal disease, ↑VD, ↑social disease, ↑Cupid s itch, ↑Cupid s disease, ↑Venus s curse, ↑dose, ↑sexually transmitted dis …
34venereal — adj. 1 of or relating to sexual desire or intercourse. 2 relating to venereal disease. Phrases and idioms: venereal disease any of various diseases contracted chiefly by sexual intercourse with a person already infected. Derivatives: venereally… …
35venereal — adjective Etymology: Middle English venerealle, from Latin venereus, from vener , venus love, sexual desire Date: 15th century 1. of or relating to sexual pleasure or indulgence 2. a. resulting from or contracted during sexual intercourse <… …
36venereal — [15] Latin venus meant ‘love, charm’ (it came ultimately from the same Indo European base as produced English wish and winsome and Sanskrit vānchā ‘wish’). It was not that common as a generic term, its most familiar role being as the name of the… …
37venereal — [15] Latin venus meant ‘love, charm’ (it came ultimately from the same Indo European base as produced English wish and winsome and Sanskrit vānchā ‘wish’). It was not that common as a generic term, its most familiar role being as the name of the… …
38venereal sore — any sore that accompanies or manifests a venereal disease …
39venereal — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sexual, genital, coital; syphilitic, luetic; gonorrheal, chancrous; aphrodisiac, cantharidian. See impurity, pleasure. venereal disease …
40venereal — ve·ne·re·al || vɪ nɪrɪəl / nɪər adj. pertaining to sexual intercourse; resulting from sexual intercourse; pertaining or associated with venereal disease; of or pertaining to the genitals …
