Letter V

Venereal

Having to do with sexual contact.

The word venereal comes from Venus, the Roman goddess of love.

A venereal disease (morbus venereus) is contracted and transmitted by sexual contact.

Today the more common term is sexually transmitted, as in a sexually transmitted infection and sexually transmitted disease

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