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meningococcal

meningococcal adjective: of, pertaining to, or caused by meningococci.

Adjective

meningococcal (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or caused by meningococci.
    • The patient had a severe meningococcal infection.

Origin of meningococcal

From meningococcus + -al.

Words formed from meningococcal

Questions about meningococcal

What does meningococcal mean?
Meningococcal means of, pertaining to, or caused by meningococci.
What part of speech is meningococcal?
Meningococcal is an adjective.

Words near meningococcal in the dictionary

  1. meningoceles
  2. meningocerebral
  3. meningococcaemia
  4. meningococcaemias
  5. meningococcaemic
  6. meningococcal
  7. meningococcemia
  8. meningococcemias
  9. meningococcemic
  10. meningococci
  11. meningococcic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meningococcal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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