gonococcus
noun
the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, causing gonorrhea.
gonococci
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pluralof gonococcus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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He suggests that the gonococci incorporated bits of the master molecule DNA containing the genetic instructions for making the enzyme from other kinds of microbes that already have these genes.
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In recent years some gonococci strains with a measure of resistance had emerged, but even those stubborn bacteria eventually succumbed to still bigger dosages of the antibiotic.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the new detection method described by Dr. Brown, the gonococci are made fluorescent and visible through a microscope under ultraviolet light only a few minutes after a smear is taken from a patient.
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When the bacteriologists made careful germ cultures from their patients' specimens, they found that eleven men still harbored gonococci.
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Although this variety of conjunctivitis is principally due to infection by gonococci, other microbes, which more frequently set up a catarrhal type, may lead to the purulent form.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
