Venereal disease :  (noun)

1: a communicable disease transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact [syn: VD, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, sexually transmitted disease]

African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, French disease, German measles, Haverhill fever, Spanish pox, VD, acquired syphilis, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, balanitis gangrenosa, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cerebral rheumatism, cerebral tabes, chancre, chancroid, chicken pox, cholera, clap, claps, climatic bubo, congenital syphilis, constitutional syphilis, cowpox, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria, dose, dose of clap, dumdum fever, dysentery, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, famine fever, fifth venereal disease, five-day fever, flu, frambesia, general paresis, glandular fever, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, great pox, grippe, hansenosis, hard chancre, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, latent syphilis, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, locomotor ataxia, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, morbus Gallicus, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paralytic dementia, paratyphoid fever, paresis, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, pox, psittacosis, pudendal ulcer, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles, simple chancre, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, social disease, soft chancre, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, swamp fever, syph, syphilis, syphilitic meningoencephalitis, tabes, tabes dorsales, tertiary syphilis, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, tropical bubo, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, viral dysentery, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster,