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gonorrhoea (iou) and calcium sign (medicine)


gonorrhoea (iou)



gonorrhoea noun. Also *gonorrhea. E16.
[Late Latin from Greek gonorrhoia, from gonos semen: see -RRHOEA.]
A venereal disease caused by the gonococcus bacterium, characterized by purulent inflammation of the genital mucous membranes, and consequent pain during urination and discharge.
gonorrhoeal adjective of, pertaining to, or affected with gonorrhoea E19.

calcium sign (medicine)


calcium sign


In chest radiography, displacement of the line of the calcified intima of the aorta away from its outer wall, a finding in a small percentage of cases of dissection of blood in the aortic media; the expression "displaced intimal calcification" is preferred to the listed term.

See: aortic dissection.