STI

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sti"

English

Noun

STI (plural STIs)

1. (pathology) Initialism of sexually transmitted infection. also S.T.I.

   Synonym: STD

   • 2014 November 8, Prof G Dennis Shanks, MD, “How World War 1 changed global attitudes to war and infectious diseases”, in The Lancet, volume 384, number 9955, →DOI, page 1703b of 1699–1707:

     For example, in the US army during the 21 months of the war that they were involved in, 6·8 million man days were lost due to STIs, and more than 10% of all disease admissions were for STIs.

   • 2017 June 24, Arti Patel, “Dating with an STI: 7 ways to navigate the (often harsh) dating world”, in Global News‎^[1]:

     This, of course, is something only people with that STI would know. For example, herpes is 437737.

   • 2023 December 11, Elizaveta Skarga, Heljä-Marja Surcel, Rudolf Kaaks, Tim Waterboer, Renée T Fortner, “Sexually Transmitted Infections and Risk of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Results From the Finnish Maternity Cohort”, in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, volume 228, number 11, →DOI, pages 1621–1629:

     Although both acute PID and STIs may remain asymptomatic, some of their shared long-term sequelae are tubal factor infertility (TFI), salpingitis, and adhesions and scarring of the fallopian tubes, ovaries, and surrounding peritoneal tissue. These sequelae have been further identified as factors potentially associated with EOC risk.

2. (pathology) Initialism of sexually transmitted illness.

Translations

STD — see STD

Proper noun

STI

1. (Philippines) Ellipsis of STI College.

Anagrams

• SIT, 'tis, Sit, its, its', IST, TIs, t'is, tis, TIS, is't, ist, sit, -ist, 'its, it's, Ist, TSI, ITS