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Gonococcus

Gonococcus \Gon`o*coc"cus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? semen, the genitals + NL. & E. coccus.] (Med.) A vegetable micro["o]rganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease.

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gonococcus

n. A bacterium, taxonomic name (taxlink Neisseria gonorrhoeae species noshow=1), that is responsible for gonorrhea.

WordNet
gonococcus
  1. n. the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea [syn: Neisseria gonorrhoeae]

  2. [also: gonococci (pl)]

Usage examples of "gonococcus".

She paints so thickly over the stratified residue of yesterday and the day before yesterday and the day before the day before's cosmetics you can hardly make out the wens and blemishes under all the layers of paint, graffiti and old posters -- voluptuous, oppressive, corrupt, self-regarding London marinating in the syrup of her own decay like baba au rhum, while the property speculators burrow away at her guts with the vile diligence of gonococci.

Both doctors, Papa and Theodore, pointed out that my mucous membranes had never been invaded by bugs - gonococci and spirochete treponema pallidum and such - because I had been drilled and drilled in ‘Always use a rubber except when you want a baby’, and my girls had been trained the same way.