gonorrhoealgonorrhealadj.
/ˌɡɒnəˈrɪəl/, U.S. /ˌɡɑnəˈriəl/ Medicine.
Of, relating to, or of the nature of gonorrhoea; causing or caused by gonorrhoea; affected with gonorrhoea.
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1684 J. Browne Adenochoiradelogia i. xxii. 197 For there are many which by experience have testified, that in dissecting of dead Bodies they have seen some affected with this Gonorrheal Flux, even to their Lives end.
1743 tr. J. Astruc Treat. All Dis. Incident to Women xi. 138 Some Physicians speak also of another Sign..viz: that the Fluor Albus ceases in the Time of Menstruation; but that the Gonorrhœal Flux still continues.
1792 J. Foot Compl. Treat. Lues Venerea 196 Let those symptoms grow to any height, they do not produce chancres on these parts, nor on any other contiguous parts to which the gonorrhæal fluid might have easy access.
1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 573 On the identity of gonorrhœal and chancrous virus.
1860 H. Thompson Dis. Prostate (1868) 51 Acute inflammation of the urethra of any kind, but especially the gonorrheal.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xviii. 471 Gonorrhœal arthritis varies very much in its severity.
1979 W. B. Ober Boswell's Clap (1988) i. 14 There is no record that she was born with gonorrheal ophthalmitis, a strong probability were her mother actively infected.
2000 T. P. Lowry & J. D. Welsh Tarnished Scalpels xviii. 84 He was charged with handling the gonorrheal and chancred penis of Private Steward.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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