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Definition: Venereal Disease |
Venereal DiseaseNoun1. A communicable disease transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | The neural path of visual impulses starting in the retinae and ending in the visual cortex. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: Venereal DiseaseSynonyms: sexually transmitted disease (n), social disease (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Venereal Disease |
| English words defined with "venereal disease": clap ♦ Gode-year, gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, Goujere, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum ♦ pox ♦ syph, syphilis, Syphilitically ♦ Tub fast. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "venereal disease": BUBE ♦ contagious equine metritis, CRINKUMS ♦ FIRE SHIP, FRENCHIFIED ♦ MALACHRA ♦ NIMGIMMER ♦ PEPPERED ♦ Santa Maria, SCOPARIA DULCIS ♦ Taylorella equigenitalis infection ♦ VENUS'S CURSE. (references) |
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Screenplays | Do you know what aspects of venereal disease she wants books on? (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; writing credit: Jerry Adelman; Daniel Gregory Browne) | |
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![]() | Sex Exposure Without Prophylaxis PRO - AXIS : Venereal Disease Helps The Enemy.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | "Venereal Disease Control, Thirty Years War." / [Umberto Romano].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Don't Sweat It Out : Prophylaxis Prevents Venereal Disease.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Georgia, 1937(?)--A group of Black men receiving intravenous treatment in a Georgia venereal disease clinic.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | A negro receiving intravenous treatment in a Georgia venereal disease clinic.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Women | Tajikistan | The law prohibits keeping brothels, procuring, making, or selling pornography, infecting another person with a venereal disease, and the sexual exploitation of women; however, prostitutes operate openly at night in certain urban areas. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
venereal disease | 238 |
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| Language | Translations for "venereal disease"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 性病 (sexually transmitted disease, VD). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | venerická nemoc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | venerisk sygdom (sexually transmitted disease), SOS (sexually transmitted disease), seksuelt overført sygdom (sexually transmissible disease, sexually transmitted disease), seksuelt overførbar sygdom (sexually transmitted disease), koenssygdom, kønssygdom (sexually transmitted disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | venerische ziekte (sexually transmitted disease), geslachtziekte (sexually transmitted disease), geslachtsziekte, dekziekte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | venerea malsano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | veneerinen tauti (sexually transmitted disease), sukupuolitauti (sexually transmitted disease), sukuelinten sairaustila, sukuelinsairaus, STD (sexually transmitted disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | maladie vénérienne. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | geschlechtskrankheit (veneral disease), Deckseuche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | MTS (sexually transmitted disease), MST (sexually transmitted disease), σεξουαλικά μεταδιδόμενο νόσημα (sexually transmitted disease), νόσος μεταδιδόμενη κατά την οχεία, αφροδίσιο νόσημα (burned, sexually transmitted disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מחלת מין. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nemi betegség (vd). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | malattia venerea (sexually transmitted disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 性病 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいびょう (Confucian temple, crack troops, elite soldiers, picked troops). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gorley frangagh, gorley comyssagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enerealvay iseaseday doença venérea. (various references) boalã venericã. (various references) венерическое заболевание (venereal desease). (various references) venerična bolest (v.d.), veneričke bolesti (v.d.). (various references) enfermedad venérea (sexually transmitted disease, v.d.). (various references) könssjukdom (dose). (various references) zührevi hastalık. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Venereal Disease" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: veneral disease. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-e-e-i-l-n-r-s-s-v" | |
-5 letters: reassailed, vandalises. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 6E 65 72 65 61 6C      44 69 73 65 61 73 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101100 00100000 01000100 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e n e r e a l   D i s e a s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 006E 0065 0072 0065 0061 006C      0044 0069 0073 0065 0061 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5671807184716778238758571678571 |
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