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GONORRHOEA
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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
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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("gonorrhoea" 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)