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GONORRHEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("gonorrhea" is a kind of...):
Cupid's disease; Cupid's itch; dose; sexually transmitted disease; social disease; STD; VD; venereal disease; venereal infection; Venus's curse (a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact)
Context examples:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that gonorrhea is the second most commonly reported notifiable disease in the United States.
(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)
However, scientists noticed that the meningitis vaccine also seemed to offer some protection against gonorrhea.
(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)
Dr. Steven Black, an infectious disease expert at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, noted, This is the first time it’s been shown that you could have a vaccine that would protect against gonorrhea.
(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)
The World Health Organization reports that gonorrhea is becoming harder, and sometimes impossible, to treat, warning that it could become incurable in the not-too-distant future.
(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)
The study about the New Zealand epidemic may change the approach toward developing a vaccine against gonorrhea.
(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)
"The bacteria that cause gonorrhea are particularly smart. Every time we use a new class of antibiotics to treat the infection, the bacteria evolve to resist them," according to Dr. Teodora Wi, a medical officer involved in human reproduction at the WHO, quoted in a news release from the UN agency.
(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)
