blennorrhea

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English

Etymology

From blenno- +‎ -rrhea, New Latin combining forms based on Ancient Greek roots.

Noun

blennorrhea (countable and uncountable, plural blennorrheas)

  1. (medicine) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus.
  2. (medicine) gonorrhea
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for blennorrhea”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)