GRANULOMA VENEREUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does granuloma venereum mean? 

• GRANULOMA VENEREUM (noun)
  The noun GRANULOMA VENEREUM has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: GRANULOMA VENEREUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANULOMA VENEREUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

granuloma inguinale; granuloma venereum

Hypernyms ("granuloma venereum" is a kind of...):

Cupid's disease; Cupid's itch; dose; sexually transmitted disease; social disease; STD; VD; venereal disease; venereal infection; Venus's curse (a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact)