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Abstract
Diseases due to or propagated by sexual contact.
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Synonyms
16 entry terms
- STDs
- STIs
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Venereal Diseases
- Disease, Sexually Transmitted
- Disease, Venereal
- Diseases, Sexually Transmitted
- Diseases, Venereal
- Infection, Sexually Transmitted
- Infections, Sexually Transmitted
- STI
- Sexually Transmitted Disease
- Sexually Transmitted Infection
- Transmitted Infection, Sexually
- Transmitted Infections, Sexually
- Venereal Disease
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36 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
general or unspecified; prefer specifics
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History Note
87; was VENEREAL DISEASES 1963-86
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012749. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012749
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_infection
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12198