What's the difference between venal and venereal?

Venal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood.
  • (a.) Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is not about who is tied to the most money – "there are so many people you could think should be taken" – but about who is judged to be too busy establishing their own kingdoms and using the party's authority purely for their own venal ends.
  • (2) The political charge sheet is long: incompetence, weakness, venality.
  • (3) All the while, a long list of corrupt and venal despots turned their rule into virtual kleptocracies and stole their children's futures.
  • (4) Given the venality of the system, Putin even said he could empathise with the protesters in Maidan square .
  • (5) That “trollumnist” Mark Latham, that “misogynist”, “venal”, “crazy-eyed moron” whose views should be “rejected and dismantled and kicked into the gutter where they belong” has resigned from the Australian Financial Review.
  • (6) Moral leader The Daily Mail on the FA's refusal to comment on JT: "Even in the sleazy, venal world of football, Terry's record was unforgivable.
  • (7) Plasma cadmium and zinc were determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry in inferior venal caval or peripheral venous blood in thrity hypertensive patients and fifteen normal subjects.
  • (8) The difference between the "rotten apple" (venal or incompetent physician) and the "bad apple" (careless or aggressive physician) is cited.
  • (9) Pigs to peerages: Lord Ashcroft’s act of revenge shows British politics at its venal worst | Simon Jenkins Read more Working for Gordon Brown , a man of Victorian sensibilities and a volatile temper, the second call was invariably greeted with the single word “What?
  • (10) Changes in the choroidal vasculature include: Venal focal dilations and narrowings, increased tortuosity, hypercellularity, increased formation of vascular loops and microaneurysms in choriocapillaries and formation of sinus-like structures between choroidal lobules.
  • (11) The restoration of integrity in banking will not happen without changes in the law to introduce serious criminal sanctions against venal traders and grossly negligent bosses.
  • (12) Thus the therapeutic usefulness for the treatment of chronic venal insufficiency is proven.
  • (13) Nice for those in the art world who view this approach as testimony to my venality, shallowness, malevolence.
  • (14) Did the Kelly affair crystallise everything that was wrong and venal about the whole Iraq adventure for Yorke?
  • (15) Corporations-are-people got the righteous ink, but the venal sin at the heart of Citizens United lies in the appalling equivocation that declares money to be speech.
  • (16) Yet some analysts say that the drive has simply pushed lavish official banquets and venal gift-giving underground .
  • (17) Dan Snyder’s former general manager, Vinny Cerrato, seems to suspect as much , and every crass venal thing everyone knows about Dan Snyder suggests Cerrato isn’t wrong.
  • (18) The authors, American researchers attached to special forces, conclude that the weakness and venality of the government in Kabul is an increasing source of strength for the insurgents.
  • (19) The country is virtually bankrupt ; Yanukovych stole billions from his own treasury, merely the latest in a long line of venal Ukrainian politicians who have looted the state.
  • (20) For local leaders, blaming al-Qaida both deflects blame from their own inefficiency and venality as well as potentially unlocking considerable financial, diplomatic and security assistance from the west.

Venereal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse.
  • (a.) Arising from sexual intercourse; as, a venereal disease; venereal virus or poison.
  • (a.) Adapted to the cure of venereal diseases; as, venereal medicines.
  • (a.) Adapted to excite venereal desire; aphrodisiac.
  • (a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, copper, formerly called by chemists Venus.
  • (n.) The venereal disease; syphilis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cytomegalovirus (CMV) was isolated from cervical secretions of 10 of 121 outpatients at a venereal disease clinic.
  • (2) These scattered rebellions by HMV workers stand in a venerable tradition.
  • (3) Venereal Disease Research Laboratories (VDRL) and Treponema pallidum hemagglutination (TPHA) tests became positive during hospitalization, and dark-field examination was positive for Treponemas, thus allowing the diagnosis of chancre of the rectum.
  • (4) It was the exigencies of World War II that brought about the 1st, largescale systematic promotion of condoms to prevent venereal disease.
  • (5) In 55 women (0.15%) both the Treponema pallidum haemagglutination assay (TPHA) and the venereal disease research laboratory (VDRL) tests were positive.
  • (6) The transmission of adult genital tract viruses to children occurs primarily by a venereal route but may occur by a nonvenereal route.
  • (7) Sixty-four canine cutaneous round cell tumors were divided into 25 mast cell tumors, 15 histiocytomas, nine cutaneous lymphosarcomas and 15 transmissible venereal tumors.
  • (8) In the second study, an attempt was made to validate the findings from the first study by comparing data from RP and NRP venereal disease patients drawn from medical and social case histories from a second hospital.
  • (9) Homosexuals are also at risk of venereal transmiddion of infection.
  • (10) Many sera were also tested with the quantitative Venereal Disease Research Laboratory test.
  • (11) HIV-infected persons had significantly more lifetime sex partners than uninfected persons; other risk factors were a prior history of venereal disease, blood transfusion, travel abroad, and a positive syphilis serology.
  • (12) The Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California , venerates the late philosopher as a prophet of unfettered capitalism who showed America the way.
  • (13) The use of condoms could be increased by better information programs regarding venereal disease.
  • (14) The non specific serological tests are the non treponemal tests such as the Venereal Disease Laboratory Test (VDRL) and the Rapid Plasma Reagin Test (RPR).
  • (15) A good number of our clients (40.5%) used condom because it protects them against venereal disease while others felt it was safe and effective.
  • (16) In recent years, Chinese companies have been busy buying up internationally renowned brands and landmarks, including New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel, the former headquarters of Chase Manhattan Bank and, in the UK, the venerable Weetabix.
  • (17) A false Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) test was present in four of the patients, three had a previous episode of arterial or venous thrombosis, or both, and two had thrombocytopenia.
  • (18) There are now a variety of rapid test methods available to assist in the diagnosis of the three most common infectious diseases seen in ambulatory medicine: pharyngitis, urinary tract infection, and venereal disease.
  • (19) The fifth had concurrent neurosyphilis and was VDRL-test (Venereal Disease Research Laboratory) negative 2 years prior to the onset of symptoms.
  • (20) In order to determine whether pregnancy influences the specificity of the fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption (FTA-ABS) and Treponema palidum haemagglutination assay (TPHA) tests, these tests, together with the quantitative fluorescent treponemal antibody (FTA) and Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) tests, were carried out simultaneously on 2000 pregnant women who attended for compulsory prenatal screening.

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