Definitions for Chlamydia

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Chlamydia chla·myd·i·a

Spelling: [kluh-mid-ee-uh]

IPA: /kləˈmɪd i ə/

Chlamydia is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 288 anagrams from letters in Chlamydia (aacdhilmy).

Definitions for Chlamydia

noun

1. 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.
2. 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.

Origin of Chlamydia

1945; New Latin Greek chlamyd-, stem of chlamýs chlamys + New Latin -ia -ia

Examples for Chlamydia

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

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

Q: How did you handle the more common ones like gonorrhea or chlamydia?

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

He's totally convinced he's got chlamydia […] he was crying and so apologetic.

He notes that the testing system currently only requires monthly checks for HIV, gonorrhea, and chlamydia.

Women were infected with gonorrhea and chlamydia from unsterilized instruments.

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

A page later, he admits to having “chlamydia” when asked if the group has “anything else.”