n.
A sexually transmitted disease caused by a bacterium (Chlamydia trachomatis) and characterized initially by a genital lesion followed by enlargement of the lymph nodes in the groin area.
[New Latin : LYMPHO- + GRANULOMA + Latin venereum, neuter of venereus, venereal.]
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