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gonorrhœa

gonorrhœa is the obsolete spelling of gonorrhea.

Meaning of gonorrhea

Noun

gonorrhea (countable and uncountable, plural gonorrheas)

  1. (US) A sexually transmitted infection caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a species of bacteria (the gonococcus) that affects the mucous membrane of the genital and urinary tracts.
    Synonyms:
    clap

Forms of gonorrhœa

pluralgonorrhœas
pluralgonorrhϾ

Words formed from gonorrhœa

Questions about gonorrhœa

What is gonorrhœa the obsolete spelling of?
Gonorrhœa is the obsolete spelling of gonorrhea.

Words near gonorrhœa in the dictionary

  1. gonorrhoea
  2. gonorrhoeal
  3. gonorrhoeas
  4. gonorrhoeic
  5. gonorrhoic
  6. gonorrhœa
  7. gonorrhœal
  8. gonorrhœas
  9. gonorrhœic
  10. gonorrhϾ
  11. gonorynchid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gonorrhœa (page history and authors); gonorrhea (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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