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

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.”

From The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 by Mooney, James

Where the gleet is thin and pellucid, it must arise from the want of absorption of the membranes of the urethra, rather than from an increased secretion from them.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Unless carefully treated, and treated early, it gives rise to many complications, such as inflammation of the bladder, gleet, stricture, inflammation of joints, abscesses, and rheumatism.

From Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health by New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health

In addition to this, give the tonics recommended for nasal gleet.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

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 Ritter, Thomas Jefferson