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CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS

Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebrospinal meningitis mean?

• CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS (noun)
The noun CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS has 1 sense:

1. meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal

Familiarity information: CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS (noun)

Sense 1

cerebrospinal meningitis ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

brain fever; cerebrospinal fever; cerebrospinal meningitis; epidemic meningitis

Hypernyms ("cerebrospinal meningitis" is a kind of...):

meningitis (infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea)

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