Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of gonorrhoeic.
The pathogenesis of the veneric ulcerations or soft chancre, or the syphilitic ulcera, the diphtheritic, the tubercular, the rare gonorrhoic ulcerations and of the phagedenic or gangrenous ulcerations of the vulva, is well known.
1918, Heliodor Schiller, “An Unusual Ulcerative Process of the Vulva”, in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, volume 77, page 3982 more examples
Sauvages has given us five ſpecies, which Dr. Cullen thus divides. The true ſpecies are the paralytic and gonorrhoic—the ſpurious ſpecies, or where impediments occur to prevent the act, from piles, or ſome fault in the urethra; what is called falſe or fictitious, that is, ſuppoſed to ariſe from magic.
1795, G. Motherby, “ANAPHRODISIA”, in George Wallis, editor, A New Medical Dictionary; or, General Repository of Physic. […], 4th edition, London: Printed for J. Johnson, […], page 68, column 1Obs. II. In other cases, the suppression of these venereal runnings was followed by a copious secretion of the nasal mucus, which, from being in its natural state, without smell, whitish, and slightly saline, became greenish, liquid, and the smell of a gonorrhoic running.
1804, Dominique Jean Larrey, “Observations on the Inoculation of Blennorhœa, (or Gonorrhœa) in Cases where this Running is suddenly suppressed, and the Suppression attended with dangerous Symptoms”, in T. Bradley, R. Batty, A. A. Noehden, editors, The Medical and Physical Journal, volume XII, London: Printed for Richard Phillips, […] By William Thorne, […], page 520
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