Gonorrhoea

Introduction: Gonorrhoea

Description of Gonorrhoea

Gonorrhoea (medical condition): Common sexually transmitted disease often without symptoms....more »

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Gonorrhea:
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Gonorrhoea: a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra.
Source: WordNet 2.1

Gonorrhoea: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Gonorrhoea:

• Venereal
• Venereal disease
• Bacterium
• Neisseria
• Painful (6458 causes)
• Urination
• Urination symptoms (1228 causes)
• Urination disorder
• Urination pain (123 causes)

Gonorrhoea as a Disease

Gonorrhoea: Another name for Gonorrhea (or close medical condition association).
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Gonorrhoea: Related Diseases

Gonorrhoea: Gonorrhoea is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Bacterial diseases
• Anorectal disorders
• Rectal conditions
• Under-diagnosed conditions
• Diseases contagious from sex
• Diseases contagious from towels
• Diseases contagious from clothing
• Diseases contagious from oral sex
• Diseases contagious from anal sex
• Diseases contagious from vaginal sex
• Diseases contagious during childbirth
• Diseases contagious from kissing
• Vagina conditions
• Mucus membrane conditions
• Conditions involving a pathogen
• Urinary tract conditions
• Reproductive Conditions
• Fertility conditions

Symptoms of Gonorrhoea (Gonorrhea)

Some of the symptoms of Gonorrhoea incude:

• No symptoms - some people and especially women may have no symptoms or very mild symptoms only; as many as 50% of female cases
• Mild symptoms
• Female early gonorrhea symptoms
  • Vaginal discharge - usually yellow or bloody
  • Yellow-green vaginal discharge

See full list of 41 symptoms of Gonorrhoea (Gonorrhea)

Treatments for Gonorrhoea (Gonorrhea)

Treatments for Gonorrhoea (Gonorrhea) include:

• Antibiotics
  • Penicillin - once the most useful treatment but now there are resistent strains and other antibiotics are used.
  • Sulphonamides
  • Tetracyclines
  • Ceftriaxone

See full list of 16 treatments for Gonorrhoea

Treatment of Gonorrhoea: For more treatment information about Gonorrhoea, see treatment of Gonorrhea (Gonorrhoea)

Gonorrhoea: Article Excerpts about Gonorrhea

Gonorrhea, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID (Excerpt)

Gonorrhea is a curable sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by a bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoeae.... (Source: excerpt from Gonorrhea, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)

Gonorrhea: NWHIC (Excerpt)

Gonorrhea is caused by the gonococcus, a bacterium that grows and multiplies quickly in moist, warm areas of the body such... (Source: excerpt from Gonorrhea: NWHIC)

Gonorrhoea: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Gonorrhoea:

• STD
• sexually transmitted disease
• gonococcal throat infection
• pregnancy
• infertility
• prostatitis

Terms associated with Gonorrhoea:

Terms Similar to Gonorrhoea:

• gonorrhea
• clap

Source - WordNet 2.1

Broader terms for Gonorrhoea

• venereal disease
• VD
• social disease
• Cupid's itch
• Cupid's disease
• Venus's curse
• sexually transmitted disease

Source - WordNet 2.1

Hierarchical classifications of Gonorrhoea

The following list attempts to classify Gonorrhoea into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• Cupid's disease,Cupid's itch,sexually transmitted disease,social disease,VD,venereal disease,Venus's curse
• contagion,contagious disease
• communicable disease
• disease
• illness,malady,sickness,unwellness
• health problem,ill health,unhealthiness
• pathological state
• condition,status
• state

Source: WordNet 2.1

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