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  1. Any disease mainly transmitted by sexual
  2. contact, although commonly the term is used
  3. specifically for gonorrhea and syphilis, both
  4. occurring worldwide, and chancroid (`soft
  5. sore') and lymphogranuloma venerum, seen
  6. mostly in the tropics. The term sexually
  7. transmitted diseases (STDs) is more often
  8. used to encompass a growing list of
  9. conditions passed on primarily, but not
  10. exclusively, in this way.
  11.