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Meningitis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Inflammation of the meninges of the brain and the spinal cord, most often caused by a bacterial or viral infection and characterized by fever, vomiting, intense headache, and stiff neck.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Inflammation of the meninges, characterized by headache, neck stiffness and photophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting and myalgia.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord.

n. See forage-poisoning.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

Word Usage

"Since the mid 1990s, epidemics in this area have been on an unprecedented scale and epidemic meningitis has also emerged in countries south of the meningitis belt."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

infectious disease

Cross Reference

tubercular meningitis epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis cerebral meningitis basilar meningitis otitic meningitis

Hyponym

epidemic meningitis leptomeningitis choriomeningitis encephalomeningitis brain fever

Form

meningitic meningism

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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