Cupid's itch — noun a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact • Syn: ↑venereal disease, ↑VD, ↑venereal infection, ↑social disease, ↑Cupid s disease, ↑Venus s curse, ↑dose, ↑sexually tran … Useful english dictionary
Cupid — The son of Venus and Mercury, Cupid is the god of love who causes those he pierces with his arrows to fall in love. He appears in Parmigianino s Cupid Carving His Bow (1535; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum) and in Caravaggio s Amor Vincit… … Dictionary of Renaissance art
cupid’s itch — venereal disease … Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games
sexually transmitted disease — noun a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact • Syn: ↑venereal disease, ↑VD, ↑venereal infection, ↑social disease, ↑Cupid s itch, ↑Cupid s disease, ↑Venus s curse, ↑dose, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
contagious disease — noun any disease easily transmitted by contact • Syn: ↑contagion • Derivationally related forms: ↑contagious (for: ↑contagion) • Hypernyms: ↑communicable disease … Useful english dictionary
venereal disease — noun a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact • Syn: ↑VD, ↑venereal infection, ↑social disease, ↑Cupid s itch, ↑Cupid s disease, ↑Venus s curse, ↑dose, ↑sexually transmitted … Useful english dictionary
social disease — noun a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact • Syn: ↑venereal disease, ↑VD, ↑venereal infection, ↑Cupid s itch, ↑Cupid s disease, ↑Venus s curse, ↑dose, ↑sexually transmi … Useful english dictionary
VD — abbr. venereal disease. * * * noun a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact • Syn: ↑venereal disease, ↑venereal infection, ↑social disease, ↑Cupid s itch, ↑Cupid s disease, ↑Venus s curse, ↑dose, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
granuloma inguinale — noun a venereal disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Calymmatobacterium; characterized by a pimply rash of the skin in the genital and groin region • Syn: ↑granuloma venereum • Hypernyms: ↑venereal disease, ↑VD, ↑venereal infection, ↑social … Useful english dictionary
lymphopathia venereum — noun infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium; transmitted by sexual contact; characterized by genital lesions and swelling of lymph nodes in the groin • Syn: ↑lymphogranuloma venereum, ↑LGV • Hypernyms: ↑venereal disease,… … Useful english dictionary
