meningitis : Idioms & Phrases
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Cerebro-spinal meningitis
- . See under
Cerebro-spinal .
Webster 1913
Cerebro-spinal meningitis , Cerebro-spinal fever
(Med.) , a dangerous epidemic, and endemic, febrile disease, characterized by inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord, giving rise to severe headaches, tenderness of the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous eruption, when it is often called spotted fever. It is not contagious.
Webster 1913
cerebrospinal meningitis
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noun meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal
cerebrospinal fever; cerebrospinal meningitis; brain fever.
WordNet
epidemic meningitis
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noun meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal
cerebrospinal fever; cerebrospinal meningitis; brain fever.
WordNet
listeria meningitis
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noun an infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed persons) caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes; in sheep and cattle the infection frequently involves the central nervous system and causes various neurological symptoms
listeriosis.
