gleet
Americannoun
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Pathology.
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a thin, morbid discharge, as from a wound.
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persistent or chronic gonorrhea.
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Also called nasal gleet. Veterinary Pathology. an inflammation of the nasal passages of a horse, producing a thick discharge.
noun
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inflammation of the urethra with a slight discharge of thin pus and mucus: a stage of chronic gonorrhoea
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the pus and mucus discharged
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gleet
1300–50; Middle English glete < Middle French glete, Old French glette < Latin glittus sticky
Example Sentences
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It is a result of common cold and requires the same treatment as prescribed for nasal gleet, namely, the sulphate of iron, sulphate of copper, iodid of potassium, etc.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Also valuable as “an application to indolent ulcers, an injection in gleet and leucorrhea, a gargle in relaxation of the uvula and aphthous ulcerations of the throat.”
When sporgles spanned the floreate mead And cogwogs gleet upon the lea, Uffia gopped to meet her love Who smeeged upon the equat sea.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
If the nasal gleet is the result of a diseased tooth, the latter must be removed.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Internally, used for.—Second stage of dysentery, diarrhea in an infusion of milk; in bleedings, sore mouth, leucorrhea, gleet, menorrhagia and excessive mucous discharges, nose-bleed, bleeding from extracted teeth, piles, bleeding after labor, sore throat.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
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