See Also: sexually transmitted disease(dictionary)
Sexually transmitted disease(health)
sexually transmitted disease(medicine)
sexually transmitted diseases(medicine)
Sexually transmitted diseases(health)
sexually transmitted disease (STD)(encyclopedia)
sexually transmitted diseases, viral(medicine)
sexually transmitted diseases, bacterial(medicine)
sexually transmitted diseases in women(medicine)
sprung rhythm(encyclopedia)

sexually transmitted disease (medicine) and sprung rhythm (sh)


sexually transmitted disease (medicine)


sexually transmitted disease
<disease> A disease, such as genital herpes, gonorrhoea, HIV or chlamydia, whose usual means of transmission is by sexual contact.


sprung rhythm (sh)




Poetic rhythm designed to approximate the natural rhythm of speech.

It is characterized by the frequent juxtaposition of single accented syllables and by the occurrence of feet with varying numbers of syllables whose sequence is interrupted by unstressed syllables that are not counted in the scansion. Because stressed syllables often occur sequentially, the rhythm is said to be "sprung." This system of prosody was developed by Gerard Manley Hopkins, who saw it as the basis of such early English poems as William Langland's Piers Plowman.