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Definition of Meningococcus
1. Noun. A pathogenic bacterium, ''Neisseria meningitidis'', that causes cerebrospinal meningitis ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meningococcus
1. [n -CI]
Medical Definition of Meningococcus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Meningococcus
Literary usage of Meningococcus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1919)
"THE EFFECT OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE CULTIVATION OF THE meningococcus. BY FREDERICK
L. GATES, MD (From the Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for ..."
2. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1921)
"The two chief representatives, the meningococcus and the gonococcus, are, ...
The meningococcus.—Inflammation of the meninges or investing membranes ..."
3. Diagnostic Methods, Chemical, Bacteriological and Microscopical: A Text-book by Ralph Waldo Webster (1920)
"The meningococcus grows more luxuriantly than the gonococcus. The colonies of
the former are larger (2 to 3 mm. in diameter) than those of the latter (1 to ..."
4. A Text-book of bacteriology by Philip Hauson Hiss, Hans Zinsser (1914)
"CHAPTER XXIV MICROCOCCUS INTRACELLULARIS MENINGITIDIS (meningococcus) INFECTIOUS
processes in the meninges may be caused by many different microorganisms. ..."
5. Human Infection Carriers: Their Significance, Recognition and Management by Charles Edmund Simon (1919)
"A swab from P. gave a plate showing many colonies of meningococcus (Type IV).
... From the fluid of a swollen knee-joint, however, the meningococcus was ..."
6. Applied bacteriology for nurses by Charles Bolduan, Marie Grund (1919)
"The meningococcus is the cause of epidemic cerebro- spinal meningitis. ...
In epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis the meningococcus is found in the purulent ..."
7. Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis by Abraham Sophian (1913)
"The meningococcus very probably in all cases first causes a nasopharyngitis,
which in turn, in a smaller number, is followed by entry of the coccus into the ..."
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