Antigonorrheic

/ˌæntiɡɑnəˈriːɪk/ adjective

Effective against or designed to treat gonorrhea, a bacterial sexually transmitted infection.

From anti- (against) + gonorrhea (from Greek gonos, seed, + rhoia, flow). Medical term from the 19th-20th centuries describing treatments for this disease.

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