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Venereal Disease (medicine) and missense (iou)


Venereal Disease (medicine)


venereal disease
<microbiology> A disease contracted through sexual intercourse.

Examples include syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia and lymphogranuloma venereum.

Synonym: sexually transmitted disease.


missense (iou)



missense adjective. M20.
[from MIS-1 2 + SENSE noun.]
Genetics. Of, pertaining to, or designating a mutation which causes the substitution of one amino acid for another at a particular point in a polypeptide or protein molecule.