Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gonococcus

Gonococcus , noun

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} semen, the genitals + New Latin & English coccus.]

(Medicine) A microorganism (Neisseria gonnorrhoeae) of the genus Neisseria (formerly Micrococcus), found in the secretion in gonorrhea, and constituting the cause of this disease.