meningitis
1.
(
noun
) 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 Words:
brain fever
,
cerebrospinal fever
,
cerebrospinal meningitis
,
epidemic meningitis
,
infectious disease
,
inflammatory disease
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