(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.
Venus
Definition:
(n.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
(n.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
(n.) The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society.
(2) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
(3) But Venus has been seen supporting Serena from the stands.
(4) Venus has a special place in the sun’s family of planets.
(5) I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite."
(6) An African woman sold into slavery, Baartman was brought to London in 1810 as the "Hottentot Venus" and exhibited as a freak of nature in London and France.
(7) Polanski's film is an adaptation of the successful play by David Ives about a theatre director (played by Mathieu Amalric) who is looking for an actress to play the lead role in a stage version of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's notorious 1870 novella Venus in Furs.
(8) In our past, we have both Venus and the crucifix, the Bible and Nordic mythology, which we remember with Christmas trees, or with the many festivals of St Lucy, St Nicolas and Santa Claus.
(9) Around this mere handful of works by its hero – which do at least include his sumptuous The Garden of Love (c 1635) and his vulnerable, shivering nude the Venus Frigida (1614) – the curators have strung together a fragile daisy chain of prints, copies and daubs of dubious relevance, and sometimes very poor quality.
(10) He began by offering three level 2 apprenticeships, which involved spending about 20 hours a week on site in the residential home, and 10 hours a week offsite with training provider Venus.
(11) The fundamental problem when intellectuals and MPs get together is always the same: politicians are from Mars; thinkers are from Venus.
(12) Venus and Serena Williams crash out in first round as Czechs post huge upset .
(13) It could be a melancholic experience, reflecting the state of the left in general – clipping off the mastheads at the end of the week of all the unsold copies of Weekly Worker , International Communist Current and Lalkar , making odd smelling vegan drinks for the older members of the co-op, ringing up a number left by someone who'd ordered Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus to tell them their book had arrived and finding that it had been ordered by a person now deceased.
(14) The five-times champion Serena Williams suffered a distressing exit from Wimbledon on Monday as she was forced to retire after three games of a doubles match with her sister Venus, suffering from a viral illness that left her groggy, disoriented and barely able to hit the ball.
(15) His two recent theatre adaptations, Carnage and, now, Venus in Fur revive these techniques, turning the limitations of theatre to his advantage.
(16) Robson almost stole the thunder of Venus Williams, who beat her sister Serena in straight sets in a high quality contest in windy conditions in yesterday's final to take her fifth Wimbledon singles title and seventh Grand Slam in all.
(17) One clue is provided as to why Hitler might have owned Cupid Complaining to Venus: in 1939 a British journalist, Ward Price, noted that Hitler had a Cranach in the Munich flat, and that it had recently been given to him as a 50th birthday present by the regional commander of Thuringia, Fritz Sauckel.
(18) Nights are a chillier story with frost likely by midweek, and clear skies in which the apparent cosying-up of Jupiter and Venus is currently a striking sight.
(19) From Earth, you can observe a small black disc – Venus – slowly wandering over the sun over the course of several hours.
(20) Simultaneously, other sources of error affecting test reliability, such as presence of dimples of Venus, relationship of skin distraction to movement of underlying structures, and upper level of Schöber skin landmarks were also considered.