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Definition of Gleet
1. Noun. A thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea.
Definition of Gleet
1. n. A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea.
2. v. i. To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet.
Definition of Gleet
1. Noun. (obsolete except Scots) Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete except Scots) Any slimy, viscous substance. ¹
3. Noun. (vulgar slang) A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhoea. ¹
4. Verb. To flow in a thin, limpid humour; to ooze, as gleet. ¹
5. Verb. To flow slowly, as water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gleet
1. to discharge mucus from the urethra [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Gleet
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleet
Literary usage of Gleet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease by John Hunter, Ph. Ricord, Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1859)
"Of the gleet in consequence of Stricture. I have already observed that it generally
happens, if not always, that there is a gleet when there is a stricture ..."
2. The Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Diseases by Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1883)
"Vet if gleet be worthy of a separate name, it must possess some distinctive
features, and these we will endeavor to describe. Let us understand then by a ..."
3. Domestic Medicine: Or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by by William Buchan (1790)
"<A gonorrhoea frequently repeated, or impro* perly treated, often ends in a gleet,
which may cither proceed from relaxation, or from fome remains of the ..."
4. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1858)
"gleet is a disease, as I see it in hospital and private ... I know no surgical
disease so over-treated as gleet is : it is managed on what I explained to ..."
5. Horses & Stables by Frederic Wellington Fitzwygram (1911)
"Nature and symptoms of Nasal gleet. 488. Ordinary causes and seat. 489. ...
Nasal gleet is of 2 kinds, namely 1st a discharge more or less continuous from ..."
6. The Modern treatment of syphilitic diseases: Both Primary and Secondary by Langston Parker (1860)
"From the time of Hunter and Benjamin Bell to Mr Milton, -listers have been applied
to the perineum and penis for tha eure of gleet. I have used them often, ..."
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