n :  a sexually transmitted disease characterized by ulceration and formation of granulations on the genitalia and in the groin area and caused by a bacterium of the genus Calymmatobacterium (C. granulomatis syn. Donovania granulomatis) which is usu. recovered from lesions as Donovan bodies .
 
    
 
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