| gonococcal a. |
bacterial arthritis occurring secondary to gonorrhea, often characterized by migratory arthritis that usually involves one and sometimes two joints, and commonly associated with erythematous skin lesions and tenosynovitis.
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| gonococcal c. |
a severe form caused by infection with gonococci, marked by greatly swollen conjunctivae and eyelids and by a profuse purulent discharge. The infection is bilateral in newborns, who acquire it from an infected vaginal passage; it is usually unilateral in adults, who acquire it by autoinoculation into the eye of other gonococcal infections, e.g., gonococcal urethritis, either in themselves or in others. Called also blennorrheal c. and gonoblennorrhea. Cf. gonorrheal ophthalmia and ophthalmia neonatorum, under ophthalmia.
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| gonococcal p. |
perihepatitis due to extension of gonorrheal infection; see also Fitz-HughCurtis syndrome, under syndrome.
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| gonococcal s. |
gonorrheal s.
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| gonococcal u. |
gonorrhea in the male.
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