Lexicon:Gleet

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Term: gleet
References: Master and Commander, page 215
The Ionian Mission, page 137
The Wine-Dark Sea, page 74
The Hundred Days, page 160
Meaning: A morbid discharge of thin liquid from a wound or ulcer. Specifically, it is the discharge from a penis when the patient is suffering from gonorrhoea.


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Maturin's Medicine — This article is based on information from Maturin's Medicine, compiled and edited by Kerry Webb, with the help of a number of contributors.

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