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chlamydia

/kluh-mid-ee-uh/US // kləˈmɪd i ə //UK // (kləˈmɪdɪə) //

衣原体,衣原体感染,衣索匹俦,衣服上的衣原体

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  1. 1

    plural chla·myd·i·ae [kluh-mid-ee-ee]. /kləˈmɪd iˌi/.

    • : Microbiology. any coccoid rickettsia of the genus Chlamydia, parasitic in birds and mammals, including humans, and causing various infections, especially of the eyes, as trachoma, lungs, as psittacosis, and genitourinary tract, as urethritis or chlamydia.
    • : Pathology.Also called lymphogranuloma venereum. a widespread, often asymptomatic sexually transmitted disease caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, a major cause of nongonococcal urethritis in men and pelvic inflammatory disease and ectopic pregnancy in women.

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Examples

  • This is worrisome, she says, because chlamydia rates are disproportionately high among sexually active adolescents, who frequently don’t develop symptoms until the infection’s later stages.

  • Mental illness is a disease just as much as cancer or chlamydia.

  • Bacterial pathogens include gonorrhea (yes) which can cause blindness in a matter of hours, and chlamydia.

  • That time that Andy thought she got chlamydia, but really she was just preggers!

  • Women were infected with gonorrhea and chlamydia from unsterilized instruments.

  • We test monthly for gonorrhea, chlamydia, and the big one, HIV.