Definition for GON-OR-RHE'A

GON-OR-RHE'A, n. [Gr. γονος, semen, and ῤεω, to flow.]

A specific contagious inflammation of the male urethra, or the female vagina, attended, from its early stages, with a profuse secretion of much mucus intermingled with a little pus. This secretion contains the contagion of the disease. The disease is not a real gonorrhœa, but a Urethritis or Elytritis.

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