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Definition: Gonococcus |
GonococcusNoun1. The pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Gonococcus \Gon`o*coc"cus\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression semen, the genitals New Latin English coccus.]. (references) |
Synonym: GonococcusSynonym: Neisseria gonorrhoeae (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gonococcus |
| Specialty definitions using "gonococcus": gonococcal conjunctivitis, gonorrheal ophthalmia. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gonococcus" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (gonococcus). |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | This photomicrograph of N. gonorrhoeae, a gonococcus, is from a urethral discharge specimen in a case of acute gonorrhoeae. Gonorrhea is second only to chlamydial infections in the number of cases reported to the CDC. Credit: CDC. |
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| "Gonococcus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gonococcus" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gonococcus | 3 |
chlamydia gonococcus | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gonococcus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | 淋菌 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | りんきん. (various references) | |
Korean | 임균. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onococcusgay.(various references) | |
Russian | гонококк. (various references) | |
Swedish | gonokock. (various references) | |
Thai | เชื้อโรคหนองใน. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | gonococcus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "gonococcus" (pronounced 'Gon`o*coc"cus'): Abaciscus, Ascococcus, Ascus, Asteriscus, Cercus, Circus, Coccus, Cuscus, Cytococcus, Damascus, Echinococcus, Ficus, Floccus, Glaucus, incus, lemniscus, locus, Macacus, Mancus, Manducus, meniscus, Micrococcus, Mucus, Ovococcus, Picus, Pneumococcus, Propithecus, Protococcus, Saccus, Sambucus, Spermococcus, streptococcus, succus, sulcus, umbilicus, uncus, Viscus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-c-g-n-o-o-o-s-u" | |
-3 letters: coccous, cocoons, congous. | |
-4 letters: coccus, cocoon, cogons, congos, congou. | |
-5 letters: cocos, cogon, congo, conus, coons, goons, uncos. | |
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