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  • noun Plural form of gonococcus.

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Examples

  • Of course, the discharge must be free from gonococci and pus.

    Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

  • But, even so, we cannot be absolutely sure, because gonococci may be hidden in the uterus or in the Fallopian tubes.

    Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

  • Referring to conditions 1 and 2, it sometimes happens that the patient has a minute amount of discharge or a few shreds in the urine, and I still permit him to marry; but this is done only after the discharge and shreds have been repeatedly examined and have been found to be catarrhal in character and absolutely free from any gonococci or other germs.

    Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

  • _ -- A cover-glass preparation stained with methylene blue reveals the gonococci lying in pairs within the leucocytes.

    Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

  • In an Indiana case, concerning which I was consulted, the girl was a hebephreniac who had resorted to this procedure with a Newfoundland dog at the instance of another girl, seemingly normal as regards mentality, and had been badly injured; a discharge resulted which resembled gonorrhoea, but contained no gonococci.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899

  • # -- The shoulder-joint may be infected by extension of suppurative osteomyelitis from the upper end of the humerus, or from suppuration in the axilla, or through the blood stream by ordinary pus organisms, pneumococci, typhoid bacilli, or gonococci.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • As some living tubercle bacilli may be harbored and thrown off with impunity, while others will destroy the strongest man, regardless of all treatment, so some spirochætæ or gonococci may be safely disposed of, while others are most deadly.

    The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals Charles William Eliot 1880

  • It is important, though, that this examination be made on the last day of menstruation or on the first or second day following; for there are many cases in which no pus and no gonococci will show in the inter-menstrual period, but will appear on those particular days, because, if the gonococci are hidden high up, they are likely to come down with the menstrual blood and portions of mucous membrane that are shed during menstruation.

    Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

  • At best, it is a delicate problem, so that whenever there has been the least suspicion that the woman may harbor gonococci I have always advised (as is my custom, to be on the safe side) and directed the woman to use either an antiseptic suppository or an antiseptic douche before coitus.

    Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

  • "stripping," the vesicles, must be free from pus and gonococci.

    Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

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