Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Inflammation of the urethra.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Inflammation of the urethra.
Wiktionary
- n. pathology Inflammation of the urethra.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) Inflammation of the urethra.
WordNet 3.0
- n. inflammation of the urethra; results in painful urination
Examples
“They do so by moving up through the urethra the narrow shaft inside the penis, causing an infection called urethritis.”
“Which led to the next accident: I impetuously signed up with the Canadian military to pay for my tuition and books, and on graduation, found myself working in a Manitoba artillery base, taking care of 400 twenty-two year olds who had nothing other than boxer's fractures and urethritis wrong with them.”
“Other organisms, including Mycoplasma hominis and a related organism, Ureaplasma urealyticum, can also cause urethritis and may impair sperm motility and fertilizing ability.”
“About half of the men with nongonococcal urethritis NGU, that is, inflammation of the urethra not due to gonorrhea, and almost half of those with acute infections of the epididymis, are infected with chlamydia.”
“Up to 40 percent of men with urethritis caused by gonorrhea also have an accompanying chlamydial infection.”
“Still other agents that cause urethritis include viruses, such as genital herpes simplex virus and human papilloma virus, and the protozoan Trichomonas vaginalis.”
“Hamilton also says he suffered for decades from "postgonoccal urethritis, a less severe but still painful disease usually contracted along with gonorrhea.”
“He would take antispasmodics to deal with prostititis, urethritis, sinusitis, and lots of antibiotics that he had to take.”
“Films at the Kennedy library reveal other instances, and suggest that the variety of ailments Kennedy had struggled with for a long time — spastic colitis, osteoporosis, prostatitis, urethritis, and Addison's disease (a malfunction of the adrenal gland) — may have been the principal contributing factor.”
““Do you know what the difference is between gonorrhea and nonspecific urethritis?””
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