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Gonorrhea
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Gonorrhea Acute infectious disease characterized by primary invasion of the urogenital tract.
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Acute
1. Of short course. 2. Severe, but of a short duration. Not chronic.
Disease
Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the rubella (German measles) virus.
Urogenital
Pertaining to both the urinary and genital structures; genitourinary.
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A hypnotic substance.
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A multinational pharmaceutical corporation.
Gallstones
Presence or formation of gallstones.
Genital herpes
Herpes simplex of the genitals.
Genital warts
Sexually transmitted form of anogenital warty growth caused by the human papillomaviruses.
Gonorrhea
Germ line
Refers to genes in germ cells as opposed to somatic cells, that is, genes in their unrearranged state rather than those rearranged for production of a protein.
Graft versus host reaction (GVH)
The pathologic consequences of a response initiated by transplanted immunocompetent T lymphocytes into an allogeneic, immunologically incompetent host. The host is unable to reject the grafted T cells and becomes their target.
Gay
Vernacular term for a male with a homoerotic status and life-style; the name that, in the twentieth century, homosexual people popularized as a term of self-reference that carries no moral or legal stigma.
Gender
One's personal, social, and legal status as male or female, or mixed, on the basis of somatic and behavioral criteria more inclusive than the genital criterion and/or erotic criterion alone.
Gender coding
Combined genetic coding, hormonal coding, and social coding of a person's characteristics of body, mind, and/or behavior as either exclusively male, exclusively female, or nonexclusively androgynous, relative to a given, and in some instances arbitrary criterion standard.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Acute
1. Of short course. 2. Severe, but of a short duration. Not chronic.
Disease
Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the rubella (German measles) virus.
Urogenital
Pertaining to both the urinary and genital structures; genitourinary.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Glutethimide
A hypnotic substance.
Glaxo Smith Kline
A multinational pharmaceutical corporation.
Gallstones
Presence or formation of gallstones.
Genital herpes
Herpes simplex of the genitals.
Genital warts
Sexually transmitted form of anogenital warty growth caused by the human papillomaviruses.
Gonorrhea
Germ line
Refers to genes in germ cells as opposed to somatic cells, that is, genes in their unrearranged state rather than those rearranged for production of a protein.
Graft versus host reaction (GVH)
The pathologic consequences of a response initiated by transplanted immunocompetent T lymphocytes into an allogeneic, immunologically incompetent host. The host is unable to reject the grafted T cells and becomes their target.
Gay
Vernacular term for a male with a homoerotic status and life-style; the name that, in the twentieth century, homosexual people popularized as a term of self-reference that carries no moral or legal stigma.
Gender
One's personal, social, and legal status as male or female, or mixed, on the basis of somatic and behavioral criteria more inclusive than the genital criterion and/or erotic criterion alone.
Gender coding
Combined genetic coding, hormonal coding, and social coding of a person's characteristics of body, mind, and/or behavior as either exclusively male, exclusively female, or nonexclusively androgynous, relative to a given, and in some instances arbitrary criterion standard.
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