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gonorrhoea

[ UK /ɡˌɒnəɹˈi‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra

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  • Silver: Before the dawn of antibiotics, silver was used on the skin as an antimicrobial agent and disinfectant and internally to treat epilepsy, gonorrhea and tropical sprue.
  • She attributes a major depopulating role to venereal diseases, especially gonorrhoea, which makes women infertile.
  • The subject developed, firstly, the typical gleet of gonorrhoea, then went on to produce a chancre and then the manifestations of secondary syphilis.
  • Furthermore, long-standing untreated gonorrhoea and syphilis cause joint swelling and inflammation with the gradual erosion of complete joints in severe cases.
  • Catherine Ison of the London-based Health Protection Agency (HPA), speaking during the society's annual spring meeting in Edinburgh, stated that certain strains of the gonococcal bacteria (which causes gonorrhea) were becoming resistant to the antibiotics ceftriaxone and cefixime. RedOrbit News - Technology
  • He didn’t consider the possibility that his patient could have both illnesses, so when he developed symptoms of each, he concluded that “gonorrhea and the chancre are the effects of the same poison.” MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a fastidious Gram-negative diplococcus which closely resembles the related human pathogen Neisseria meningitidis, as well as several commensal species.
  • Ascending infection in women leads to the major complication of gonorrhea, pelvic inflammatory disease, a common cause of female infertility.
  • - The combination of probenecid and procaine penicillin is always indicated for the treatment of gonorrhoea, except in pregnant women. Chapter 4
  • The presence of pubic lice should prompt an evaluation for other common sexually transmitted diseases, such as chlamydial infection and gonorrhea.
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