Word Finder - venereal

definition

Of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse.

synonyms

• Cytherean
• aphroditic

definition

Of a disease: sexually transmitted; of or relating to, or adapted to the cure of, a venereal disease.

example

a venereal medicine

definition

Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Venus; lascivious, lustful.

synonyms

• libidinous
• lusty
• venereous

definition

Of or relating to copper (formerly called Venus by alchemists).

Laser therapy, although more expensive, is often used for treating venereal warts that are more extensive.

Unlike venereal syphilis, endemic syphilis is not sexually transmitted.

Similar to venereal syphilis, however, it begins with skin sores and has a latent period followed by a more severe stage, which includes bone infections and additional skin lesions.

It seems like he either shot himself or died of venereal disease.

He sat on various royal commissions, including those on the Civil Service and Venereal Diseases, and from 1917 to 1919 was again chairman of the Independent Labour party.

It may be taken at first for almost any fever, particularly typhoid, or for venereal disease or lymphangitis.

Strong sulphuric acid is occasionally used as a caustic to venereal sores, warts and malignant growths.

The theory that the King suffered from the venereal disease syphilis, was first put forward about a century after his death.

Aimed at the public, this brochure describes bovine trichomoniasis, a venereal disease of cattle caused by the parasite Tritrichomonas fetus.

A law enacted in 1909 forbids a marriage in which either of the parties is a common drunkard, habitual criminal, epileptic, imbecile, feeble-minded person, idiot or insane person, a person who has been afflicted with hereditary insanity, a person who is afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis in its advanced stages, or a person who is afflicted with any contagious venereal disease, unless the woman is at least forty-five years of age.

Under Hollywood's production code at the time, movies could not include nudity, criminal activity, or offensive language, or depict illegal drug use, venereal disease, or childbirth.

Men were accusing many women of trying to have sex with them who had venereal disease.

Others are receiving chemotherapy for transmissible venereal tumors, which are sexually transmitted.

An injection of the tincture into venereal warts is said to cause them to disappear.

A salaried doctor for the poor was appointed in 1805, midwifery and venereal cases being excluded from his duties.

Genital warts, also called condyloma acuminata or venereal warts, are one of the most common forms of sexually transmitted disease (STD) in this country.