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Definition of: venereal
(və·nir′ē·əl) adjective
1. Pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse.
2. Communicated by sexual relations with an infected person: a venereal disease.
3. Pertaining to or curative of diseases so communicated.
4. Infected with venereal disease. [<L venereus <Venus, -eris, the goddess of love]
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