STD
abbreviation
sexually transmitted disease: any disease characteristically transmitted by sexual contact, as gonorrhea, syphilis, genital herpes, and chlamydia.
STD
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std.
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S.T.D.
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STD
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British
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subscriber trunk dialling
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subscriber toll dialling
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sexually transmitted disease
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Doctor of Sacred Theology
std
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STD
Scientific
STD
Cultural
Etymology
Origin of STD1
First recorded in 1970–75
Origin of S.T.D.3
From New Latin Sacrae Theologiae Doctor
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In a statement, Dr. Jonathan Mermin, the director of CDC's National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention said he saw a “glimmer of hope amidst millions of STIs.”
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025
Helicopters Mulaney cracked several one-liners about the episode’s aviation theme , calling a chopper circling an STD billboard “the official bird of Los Angeles.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
Stephanie Pang, a senior director with the coalition of STD directors, said that given the critical role of this drug and the severe access concerns, she thinks a stockpile is necessary.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2024
“Things are much better than they were last summer,” said Dr. Stephanie Cohen, who oversees STD prevention work at San Francisco’s health department.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
Zenilman, likewise, wasn’t saying that the STD clinics in Baltimore were shut down.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
“The pandemic made S.T.I.s worse in America — for the first year, people all but stopped getting testing and treatment,” says David C. Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of S.T.D.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2022
This included 2,402 patients for birth control and S.T.D. testing, 815 abortion patients and 724 patients for gender-affirming hormone therapy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
The center, in Terre Haute, Indiana, is one of more than twenty-five hundred such C.P.C.s in the U.S.—Christian organizations that provide services including free pregnancy testing, low-cost S.T.D. testing, parenting classes, and ultrasounds.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2019
Ms. Kowalski was not advised to seek a physical exam or pregnancy or S.T.D. testing, and was not made aware of her rights under Title IX.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2019
In 1821 he delivered the Dudleian lecture on the “Evidences of Revealed Religion” at Harvard, of whose corporation he had been a member since 1813; he had received its degree of S.T.D. in 1820.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
Questions on sample sizes, analysis methods, std deviations, etc.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2017
If you are taking std deduction, that loss is not made up by increase in std deduction.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2017
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