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Venereal infection

noun

A communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact. Synonyms: Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, dose, sexually transmitted disease, social disease, STD, VD, venereal disease, Venus's curse.

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"Venereal infection" Quotes from Famous Books

... risks of indulgence by the prompt use, immediately upon return to camp or garrison, of the prophylaxis prescribed by War Department orders and which all soldiers are required to take after exposing themselves to the danger of venereal infection. Men who immediately after intercourse urinate and wash the private parts thoroughly with soap and water will lessen the chances of infection. Drunkenness greatly increases ...

— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss

... her contribution to the next generation. In extreme cases, it would be proper for society to take adequate steps to insure that the dysgenic party could neither remarry nor have offspring outside marriage. The time-honored justifiable grounds for divorce,—adultery, sterility, impotence, venereal infection, desertion, non-support, habitual cruelty,—appear to us to be no more worthy of legal recognition than the more purely dysgenic grounds of chronic inebriety, feeble-mindedness, epilepsy, insanity or any other serious inheritable physical, mental ...

— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

Words linked to "Venereal infection" : Venus's curse, chlamydia, Cupid's disease, LGV, clap, granuloma venereum, lues, contagion, contagious disease, Cupid's itch, herpes genitalis, genital herpes, social disease, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, lues venerea, syph, pox, lymphogranuloma venereum, gonorrhoea, lymphopathia venereum, syphilis