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Noun sexually transmitted disease has 1 sense

venereal disease, VD, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, sexually transmitted disease - a communicable disease transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact
--₁ is a kind of contagious disease, contagion
--₁ has particulars:
genital herpes, herpes genitalis; gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, clap; granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum; syphilis, syph, pox; lymphogranuloma venereum, LGV, lymphopathia venereum; chlamydia