Designed to act against or kill the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which causes the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea.
From anti- (against) + gonococcic (relating to Neisseria gonorrhoeae). Medical terminology developed in the 20th century as doctors sought treatments for gonorrhea.
Before antibiotics, antigonococcic treatments were brutal—doctors used mercury and silver compounds that were nearly as dangerous as the disease itself!
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