A medical term for an abnormal discharge from the urethra, typically resulting from gonorrhea or other infection.
From Middle English 'glete' or Old French 'glete,' possibly from Latin 'glossa' or related to 'glue-like' substances. The term has been used in medical texts since at least the 1400s.
Gleet is one of those old medical terms that sounds archaic but is still used by doctors today! It shows how English medicine borrowed terminology from French and Latin, creating a specialized vocabulary that's been stable for 600 years despite modern advances.
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