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

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Etymology

Origin of gleet

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

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Example Sentences

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gleet

Internally, used for.—Dropsy, suppression of the urine, blood in the urine, gravel, gonorrhea and gleet.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

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

From Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. by Civiale Remedial Agency

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

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.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury

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 Erasmus Darwin

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