noun
- A chronic inflammation of a bodily orifice (especially the urethra) characterized by a discharge; a medical condition.
Usage: medical; archaic or formal usage
Examples
- The physician diagnosed the patient with gleets following the infection.
- Gleets can persist long after the initial infection has been treated.
- Historical medical texts frequently documented cases of gleets in soldiers.
- The condition known as gleets was more commonly discussed in 19th-century medical literature.