Venereal Disease

  

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Venereal Disease

Definition: Venereal Disease

Venereal Disease

Noun

1. A communicable disease transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Venereal Disease

DomainDefinitions

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 Disease

Synonyms: sexually transmitted disease (n), social disease (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Venereal Disease

English words defined with "venereal disease": clapGode-year, gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, Goujere, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereumpoxsyph, syphilis, SyphiliticallyTub fast. (references)
Specialty definitions using "venereal disease": BUBEcontagious equine metritis, CRINKUMSFIRE SHIP, FRENCHIFIEDMALACHRANIMGIMMERPEPPEREDSanta Maria, SCOPARIA DULCISTaylorella equigenitalis infectionVENUS'S CURSE. (references)

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Modern Usage: Venereal Disease

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Venereal Disease

DomainTitle

Books

  • Microbes and Morals: The Strange Story of Venereal Disease (reference)

  • V.D.: Venereal Disease and What You Should Do About It (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: Venereal Disease

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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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Non-Fiction Usage: Venereal Disease

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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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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Venereal Disease

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

venereal disease

238
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Modern Translations: Venereal Disease

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

   

Portuguese

  

doença venérea. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

boalã venericã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

венерическое заболевание (venereal desease). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

venerična bolest (v.d.), veneričke bolesti (v.d.). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

enfermedad venérea (sexually transmitted disease, v.d.). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

könssjukdom (dose). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zührevi hastalık. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Venereal Disease

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).

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Anagrams: Venereal Disease

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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Alternative Orthography: Venereal Disease


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 65 6E 65 72 65 61 6C      44 69 73 65 61 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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)

&#86 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#68 &#105 &#115 &#101 &#97 &#115 &#101

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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