sexually transmitted infection

English

Noun

sexually transmitted infection (plural sexually transmitted infections)

2. (medicine) Any of various infections that are usually contracted through sexual contact, with or without symptoms.

   Alternative form: STI (initialism)

   Synonyms: STD, sexually transmitted disease, VD (dated), venereal disease (dated), gift that keeps on giving (slang)

   Hypernyms: infection, infectious disease < disease, disorder, illness < condition

   Coordinate terms: see (other disease types) Thesaurus:disease

Translations

a sexually transmitted disease, with or without symptoms

• Dutch: seksueel overdraagbare infectie (nl) f
• Irish: ionfhabhtú gnéas-tarchurtha m
• Spanish: infección de transmisión sexual f, enfermedad de transmisión sexual f, enfermedad venérea f
• Tok Pisin: seksueli transmitet disis, sik bilong koap
• Ukrainian: захворювання що передається статевим шляхом n (zaxvorjuvannja ščo peredajetʹsja statevym šljaxom)