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trichomonosis

trichomonosis is the alternative form of trichomoniasis.

Meaning of trichomoniasis

Noun

trichomoniasis (usually uncountable, plural trichomoniases)

  1. (usually) A common sexually transmitted disease caused by the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis and infecting the urinary tract or vagina.
    • Similar changes occur later after the menopause that, if not ideal for colonization by T. vaginalis they are clearly not impossible, since both prepubertal and post-menopausal trichomoniases in females are well described.2003, J. P. Ackers, “11: Trichomonads”, in Stephen Gillespie, Richard D. Pearson, editors, Principles and Practice of Clinical Parasitology, page 246
    Synonyms:
    ping pong disease, trich

Forms of trichomonosis

pluraltrichomonoses

Questions about trichomonosis

What is trichomonosis the alternative form of?
Trichomonosis is the alternative form of trichomoniasis.

Words near trichomonosis in the dictionary

  1. trichomonal
  2. trichomonas
  3. trichomoniases
  4. trichomoniasis
  5. trichomonoses
  6. trichomonosis
  7. Trichomycetes
  8. trichomycoses
  9. trichomycosis
  10. trichomycterid
  11. trichomycterids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trichomonosis (page history and authors); trichomoniasis (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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