meningitis
1. [ noun ] (medicine) infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea
Related terms: infectious_disease inflammatory_disease leptomeningitis choriomeningitis cerebromeningitis cerebrospinal_meningitis
Similar spelling:   meningism
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  menninger
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