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Definition of gonorrhea
: a contagious inflammation of the genital mucous membrane caused by the gonococcus —called also clap
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Chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, and HPV can still be transmitted through oral sex.
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Further, there were additional benefits, such as fewer cases of gonorrhea in the state.
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Antibiotics are effective only in the much smaller number of cases that involve the bacteria that cause gonorrhea or chlamydia.
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In a time when gonorrhea was more common and had no good cure, these devices resulted in a high rate of pelvic inflammatory disease.
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The program educates teens about STIs and offers students at select schools the option to leave urine samples to be tested for chlamydia and gonorrhea, the two most common bacterial sexually transmitted diseases.
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The good news is that most gonorrhea can be cured with antibiotics—
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The specialty clinic diagnoses and treats sexually transmitted diseases including syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, yeast and herpes.
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Cases of gonorrhea and chlamydia are on the rise, and syphilis has come back from the brink of extinction.
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Origin and Etymology of gonorrhea
New Latin, from Late Latin, morbid loss of semen, from Greek gonorrhoia, from gon- + -rrhoia -rrhea
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medical : a disease of the sex organs that is spread by sexual contact
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