gleet

American  

[gleet] / glit /

noun

1. Pathology.

   1. a thin, morbid discharge, as from a wound.

   2. persistent or chronic gonorrhea.

2. Also called nasal gleet.  Veterinary Pathology. an inflammation of the nasal passages of a horse, producing a thick discharge.

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gleet British  

/ ɡliːt /

noun

1. inflammation of the urethra with a slight discharge of thin pus and mucus: a stage of chronic gonorrhoea

2. the pus and mucus discharged

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Other Word Forms

• gleety adjective

Etymology

Origin of gleet

1300–50; Middle English glete < Middle French glete, Old French glette < Latin glittus sticky

Example Sentences

I am beneficial in cases of liver disease, impurities of the blood, flatulence, kidney disease, dyspepsia, brown phlegm, tumours, gout, rheumatism, gleet, and complications arising from these.

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These are also much recommended in gleets, and in fluor albus, perhaps more than they deserve; they give a violet smell to the urine, and hence probably increase the secretion of it.

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If the nasal gleet is the result of a diseased tooth, the latter must be removed.

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Neglected gleet often causes stricture; neglected or improperly treated stricture often causes and keeps up a gleet.

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In chronic nasal catarrh or so-called gleet, the glands between the jaw bones are very slightly, if at all, enlarged; they are loose, not hard and knotty, as in glanders.

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