gonococcus
- n the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea
- In gonorrhea victims, it is caused by the gonococcus bacterium.
- Ever since penicillin's potency against the gonococcus was discovered, health experts have hoped it would eventually provide a quick treatment that a doctor could give in his office.
- So far sulfanilamide has had no remarkable effect on diseases produced by bacteria other than the streptococcus, men-ingococcus, pneumococcus, or gonococcus.