English > venereal infection: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | A communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact. |
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| Synonyms | venereal disease, VD, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, dose, sexually transmitted disease, STD |
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| Narrower | chlamydia | A sexually transmitted infection caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia |
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| genital herpes, herpes genitalis | An infection caused by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) that is usually transmitted by sexual contact |
| gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, clap | A common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
| granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum | A venereal disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Calymmatobacterium |
| lymphogranuloma venereum, LGV, lymphopathia venereum | infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium |
| syphilis, syph, pox, lues venerea, lues | A common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete |
| Broader | contagious disease, contagion | Any disease easily transmitted by contact |
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| Spanish | dosis, enfermedad de transmisión sexual, enfermedad social, enfermedad venérea, ETS, EV, infección de transmisión sexual, infección venérea |
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| Catalan | malaltia de transmissió sexual, malaltia venèria |
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