gynecopathy

English

Etymology

gyneco- +‎ -pathy

Noun

gynecopathy (plural gynecopathies)

  1. Any disease that only affects women
    • 1909 March, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 62, page 726:
      Many of the young men in- penurious circumstances are gonorrheics, and assuming, because the disease is in a quiescent stage, that they are cured, contract marriage, and it often occurs that the disease is transmitted to the wife, and the first pregnancy is followed by serious complications, causing thereafter sterility and illimitable gynecopathies.

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