social disease en · NOUN
Meanings
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(dated) A sexually transmitted disease
Cooperating in the drive against social disease, all of the 240 co-educational students of Wagner College, Staten Island, a non-sectarian school under the sponsorship of the United Lutheran Synod of New York, started yesterday to take the Wassermann test.
1938, “240 Students Submit to Wassermann Test”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| social diseases | Number=Plur | lexicographic |