Definition of "pneumococci" []

• Plural form of pneumococcus. (noun)

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• "She lay five days on her studio cot, hauling in air like water from a well, too vain to grant an audience to medicine, while her lungs ripened with pneumococci and her blood starved."
• "Rita Iverson, R. N.Even if effective vaccines against HIV, malaria and pneumococci are developed ( "A Shot of Hope," Oct. 1) and made available to poor countries at very low cost, their administration to the target population would require massive efforts and resources."
• "Getting rid of the vaccine-targeted pneumococci evidently made life better for their non-vaccine-targeted relatives."