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- n a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra
- When, three years ago, doctors learned the spectacular, four-day, 40 sulfanilamide cure for gonorrhea, they gave a short, loud hail, straightway began the practice of dosing .
- For Coco is a gonorrhea bacillus, and Drivas, his rival, is syphilis.
- From 1996 to 2003, total cases of chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis and genital warts among people over 45 increased 127%, from 344 cases in 1996 to 780 in 2003.