venereal disease
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of venereal disease
First recorded in 1650–60
Example Sentences
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While syphilis as a venereal disease presents a global health risk, bejel, which is spread by skin contact, only occurs today in very arid regions of Africa and Asia.
From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024
Three years earlier, while pursuing graduate work in history, Buxtun had taken a job at the local Public Health Service office in 1965; he was tasked with tracking venereal disease cases in the Bay Area.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2022
In 1926, the federal government eliminated federal aid to the states to prevent venereal disease, while state appropriations for this purpose declined.
From Salon • Jul. 16, 2022
Unlike the pilfering Bellow, Hemingway and Sebald evoked by Barliant, Mann showed a gift for unsolicited largess — endowing his fellow expatriate Arnold Schoenberg with a fictional venereal disease.
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021
We have as much distaste for talking about personal death as for thinking about it; it is an indelicacy, like talking in mixed company about venereal disease or abortion in the old days.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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