noun
- Pathology.
- a thin, morbid discharge, as from a wound.
- persistent or chronic gonorrhea.
- Also called nasal gleet. Veterinary Pathology. an inflammation of the nasal passages of a horse, producing a thick discharge.
noun
- inflammation of the urethra with a slight discharge of thin pus and mucus: a stage of chronic gonorrhoea
- the pus and mucus discharged
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.
- Inflammation of the urethra resulting from chronic gonorrhea and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge.
- The discharge that is characteristic of this inflammation.medorrhea