Relating to or caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea.
From gonococcus (the bacterium), with '-al' suffix making it adjectival. Named in the 1800s when the causative agent was identified.
Gonorrhea literally means 'flow of seed,' but when doctors found the actual bacterium under microscopes, they named it 'gonococcus' (sphere of sexual disease)—ancient ignorance met modern precision.
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