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Gonorrhea is a common bacterial infection that can cause pain or no symptoms, and is growing harder to treat.
means A common bacterial sexually transmitted infection, caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, that often causes genital discharge and pain but can also produce no symptoms at all.
from From Greek gonos 'seed' and rhoia 'flow' — the ancient physician Galen coined it believing the discharge was literally leaking semen. That's wrong (it's pus, not sperm), making this one of medicine's most confidently incorrect names, stubbornly preserved for roughly two thousand years.
- nickname origin
- called the clap, possibly from old brothels
- sneaky symptom rate
- many infected people feel nothing at all
- superbug status
- now resistant to nearly every antibiotic tried
- name meaning
- greek for flow of seed, a misdiagnosis