meningococcus
noun
a reniform or spherical bacterium, Neisseria meningitidis, that causes cerebrospinal meningitis.
meningococci
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pluralof meningococcus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute perfected a serum which attacked the meningococci.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ten years ago Dr. Newell Simmons Ferry, whom Parke, Davis & Co. had hired from the University of Tennessee, began to hunt for a toxin which the meningococci might excrete.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thousands of recruits had meningococci in their throats, but did not get sick.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a third and worse possibility: meningococci, which could kill Mary within an hour or two.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is only in the unaccountable minority, the “cases,” that the line is crossed, and then there is the devil to pay on both sides, but most of all for the meningococci.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
