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meningitis

DEFINITIONS OF: meningitis

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n 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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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
lymphocytic choriomeningitis
a form of viral meningitis caused by a virus carried by the common house mouse
Type of:
infectious disease
a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
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