Usually means: Bacteria causing meningitis and septicemia.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word meningococcus:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. meningococcus: Merriam-Webster
  2. meningococcus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. meningococcus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. meningococcus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. meningococcus: Wordnik
  6. meningococcus: Wiktionary
  7. meningococcus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. meningococcus: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. meningococcus: Dictionary.com
  10. Meningococcus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. meningococcus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meningococcus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. meningococcus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. meningococcus: Medical dictionary
  5. Meningococcus: Drug Medical Dictionary
  6. Meningococcus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (meningococcus)

▸ noun:  A pathogenic bacterium (Neisseria meningitidis), common cause of cerebrospinal meningitis

Similar:
meningococcemia, bacterial meningitis, meningitis W, meningomyeloencephalitis, myelomeningitis, pneumococcus, aseptic meningitis, tick-borne encephalitis, myeloencephalitis, mycoplasma, more...

Opposite:
non-meningococcus, anti-meningococcus

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Similar:
meningococcemia, bacterial meningitis, meningitis W, meningomyeloencephalitis, myelomeningitis, pneumococcus, aseptic meningitis, tick-borne encephalitis, myeloencephalitis, mycoplasma, more...

Opposite:
non-meningococcus, anti-meningococcus



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