venereal disease
noun
: a contagious disease (such as gonorrhea or syphilis) that is typically acquired in sexual intercourse compare std
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After a disturbingly invasive venereal disease exam, she's marked — literally, with ink — as pregnant.
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Matt Cabral, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Manson spent a lot of time at the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, mostly because his girls were stricken by venereal disease.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
There was a large public relations poster effort throughout the country and on Army bases throughout Europe for preventing venereal disease because penicillin should go to wounded soldiers.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
So venereal disease became a widespread and debilitating problem for the Army, the Navy and the Air Force.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
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Matt Cabral, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Manson spent a lot of time at the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, mostly because his girls were stricken by venereal disease.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
There was a large public relations poster effort throughout the country and on Army bases throughout Europe for preventing venereal disease because penicillin should go to wounded soldiers.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
So venereal disease became a widespread and debilitating problem for the Army, the Navy and the Air Force.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
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“Venereal disease.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/venereal%20disease. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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