Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord.
- noun See
forage-poisoning .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord.
- noun See under
Cerebro-spinal .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology Inflammation of the
meninges , characterized byheadache , neck stiffness andphotophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting andmyalgia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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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Examples
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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.
Chapter 2 1998
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Investigators hypothesize that meningitis is under-diagnosed in infants.
Clinical Trials 2010
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Bacterial meningitis is a rare, but often deadly disease.
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Viral meningitis is often less severe than bacterial meningitis.
Meningococcus 2010
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The paper is an extension on work initially done in meningitis, where decreasing the overcrowding in houses (15-20 people in a 3 bedroom bouse) led to improvement in incidence.
Medpundit 2007
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In 1982 Anthony Fauci also blocked development of the Panicalli/Paoletti Recombinant Vaccine for genital herpes under the false pretext that the risk of meningitis from the vaccinia based vaccine contraindicated its use.
Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer 2006
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Brain Fever is usually called meningitis or encephalitis today ...
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In Africa’s meningitis belt the risk of meningitis is about 1,000-fold greater than that in the U.S.
Feature Articles 2010
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Pneumococcal disease is also a major cause of bacterial meningitis, which is often fatal.
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Their best guess was viral meningitis, which is luckily not as severe as the bacterial kind.
Stories Save Lives 2009
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