An acute infectious discharge, historically used to describe gonorrhea or similar conditions involving heavy mucus discharge.
From Greek 'blenna' (mucus) + 'rhaggia' (bursting forth or excessive flow). This combines the mucus root with a more forceful version of the flow root.
Before antibiotics, this was among the most feared infections—the medical term's emphasis on 'bursting forth' captures the severity doctors observed, making it one of history's bluntest disease names.
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