Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
gonococcal .
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Examples
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When clearly made aware of these simple sex principles, and convinced that it is unmanly and depraved to consider them vulgarly, the rapidly developing manly boy will not become a masturbator or a frequenter of bawdy-houses and a victim of the gonococcic or spirochætic infections; nor will he become a moral assassin, a seducer of girls.
The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals Charles William Eliot 1880
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This explains the number of gonococcic infections occurring in girl children.
The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals Charles William Eliot 1880
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In women gonococcic infections are even more destructive than in men, as it is extremely common for the infection to extend to the tubes and to the peritoneal cavity, thus necessitating dangerous and mutilating operations, generally followed by sterility and often by death.
The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals Charles William Eliot 1880
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