gleet









gleet


noun

  1. Pathology.
    1. a thin, morbid discharge, as from a wound.
    2. persistent or chronic gonorrhea.
  2. Also called nasal gleet. Veterinary Pathology. an inflammation of the nasal passages of a horse, producing a thick discharge.

noun

  1. inflammation of the urethra with a slight discharge of thin pus and mucus: a stage of chronic gonorrhoea
  2. the pus and mucus discharged
n.

mid-14c., from Old French glete “clay, loam; slime, mud; filth” (12c., Modern French glette), from Latin glitem (nominative glis) “sticky, glutinous ground,” back-formation from glittus “sticky.”

n.

  1. Inflammation of the urethra resulting from chronic gonorrhea and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge.
  2. The discharge that is characteristic of this inflammation.medorrhea
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