venereal disease

noun

, Pathology.

1. sexually transmitted disease. : VD

venereal disease

noun

1. any of various diseases, such as syphilis or gonorrhoea, transmitted by sexual intercourse VD

venereal disease

/ və-nîr′ē-əl /

1. See sexually transmitted disease

Word History and Origins

Origin of venereal disease¹

First recorded in 1650–60

Example Sentences

So venereal disease became a widespread and debilitating problem for the Army, the Navy and the Air Force.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

While syphilis as a venereal disease presents a global health risk, bejel, which is spread by skin contact, only occurs today in very arid regions of Africa and Asia.

From Science Daily

Specifically, the court ruled that a person could not be criminally punished for being a narcotics addict, which would be like making it a crime “to be mentally ill, or a leper, or to be afflicted with a venereal disease.”

From Los Angeles Times

Donald Ellis Wildmon was born on Jan. 18, 1938, in Dumas, Miss., the youngest of the five children of Ellis Wildmon, a venereal disease investigator for the state health department, and Bernice T. Wildmon, a schoolteacher.

From New York Times

Related Words

• gonorrhea
• herpes
• pox
• syphilis