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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The dosage was supposed to clean out transient meningococci, the microbes that cause this form of inflammation of the brain covering.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
There was a third and worse possibility: meningococci, which could kill Mary within an hour or two.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man who catches a meningococcus is in considerably less danger for his life, even without chemotherapy, than meningococci with the bad luck to catch a man.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
