Crossword-Solution: URETHRITIS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

GONORRHEA (Urethritis).--This can be called an infectious inflammation of the urethra, caused by the gonococcus, a microbe or germ, causing a specific inflammation of the mucous membrane of the urethra or vagina.

They may develop at any stage of the urethritis, but are most frequently met with from the eighteenth to the twenty-second day after the primary infection, when the organisms have reached the posterior urethra; they have been observed, however, after the discharge has ceased.

That this is the actual case there can be but little doubt about, as, even where the gangrene invades the body of the penis itself, even where the inflammatory action may have started from a violent urethritis, that condition of blood which favors gangrenous results will be found to have begun during its state of stasis, where it has parted with much of its watery element, as well as considerable of its vitality, while in its slow, tedious, and obstructed passage through the prepuce.

Every stallion suffering from urethritis should be withheld from service, as should mares with leucorrhea.

This is a permanent narrowing of the urethra at a given point, the result of previous inflammation, caused by the passage or arrest of a stone, or gravel, by strong astringent injections in the early nonsecreting stage of urethritis, or by contraction of the lining membrane occurring during the healing of ulcers in neglected inflammations of that canal.