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MENINGITIS

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

1. 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

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

• MENINGITIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meningitis"):

choriomeningitis (a cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges)

brain fever; cerebrospinal fever; cerebrospinal meningitis; epidemic meningitis (meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal)

cerebromeningitis; encephalomeningitis; meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges)

leptomeningitis (inflammation of the leptomeninges)

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Definition of choriomeningitis
Definition of leptomeningitis
Definition of meningoencephalitis
Pronunciation of brain fever
Definition of cerebrospinal meningitis

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