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meningitis
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Word definitions for meningitis in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE bacterial ▪ The symptoms are similar so hospital tests may be needed to tell the difference between bacterial and viral meningitis . ▪ If bacterial meningitis is diagnosed early and treated promptly, most people ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meningitis \Men`in*gi"tis\, n. [NL. See Meninges , and -itis .] (Med.) Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord. Cerebro-spinal meningitis . See under Cerebro-spinal .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) Inflammation of the meninges, characterized by headache, neck stiffness and photophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting and myalgia.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Meningitis is an acute inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord , known collectively as the meninges . The most common symptoms are fever , headache and neck stiffness . Other symptoms include confusion or altered consciousness ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"inflammation of the meninges," 1825, coined from Modern Latin meninga , from Greek meninx (genitive meningos ) "membrane," in medical Latin especially that of the brain (see member ) + -itis "disease." Related: Meningitic .
Usage examples of meningitis.
About half of those with the inhalational form of the disease develop anthrax meningitis if untreated.
See also respirators medical response to bioterrorism, recommendations for, 169 meningitis, anthrax, 54 middle-school children, communicating with, 46-47 mildew, powdery, 152 Morris, Thomas, Jr.
And we should never have got near the case till the real Madame Marchal had died quietly of meningitis and Marchal was arrested for murder.
It also began with loud smelly farts, with bad breaths, with ragged nerves, with epilepsy, with meningitis, with low wages, with back pay that was overdue, with worn-out shoes, with corns and bunions, with flat feet and broken arches, with pocket books missing and fountain pens lost or stolen, with telegrams floating in the sewer, with threats from the vice-president and advice from the managers, with wrangles and disputes, with cloudbursts and broken telegraph wires, with new methods of efficiency and old ones that had been discarded, with hope for better times and a prayer for the bonus which never came.
Only thing we usually have to worry about, in terms of contagion, is bacterial meningitis.
William set a plate at each place while he quizzed Mattie at length about her mother's death from acute bacterial meningitis.
The defence was that the prescription had been properly filled, but that the child was the victim of various diseases, from acute gastritis to cerebro-spinal meningitis.
If a really intricate case of, say, cerebro-spinal meningitis comes my way and I’.
From the fluid pressure and from its chemical makeup it is possible to draw useful conclusions as to the existence or nonexistence of a brain tumor or abscess, of meningitis or other infection, and so on.
They tried typhoid, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, meningitis, and tularemia.
Meningitis, encephalitis - that's a sleeping sickness caused by inflammation of the brain - even venereal diseases.