social disease

social disease

n.

1. A sexually transmitted disease; a venereal disease.

2. A disease having its highest incidence among socioeconomic groups predisposed to it by a given set of adverse living or working conditions.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

social disease - a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact sexually transmitted disease, STD, VD, venereal disease, venereal infection, Venus's curse, Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, dose contagion, contagious disease - any disease easily transmitted by contact genital herpes, herpes genitalis - an infection caused by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) that is usually transmitted by sexual contact; marked by recurrent attacks of painful eruptions on the skin and mucous membranes of the genital area gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, clap - a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum - a venereal disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Calymmatobacterium; characterized by a pimply rash of the skin in the genital and groin region lues, lues venerea, pox, syph, syphilis - a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) LGV, lymphogranuloma venereum, lymphopathia venereum - infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium; transmitted by sexual contact; characterized by genital lesions and swelling of lymph nodes in the groin chlamydia - a sexually transmitted infection caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia