cerebrospinal meningitis

cerebrospinal meningitis
noun
meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal
• Hypernyms: ↑meningitis

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noun or cerebrospinal fever
: inflammation of the membranes enveloping the brain and spinal cord in man or animals; specifically : an infectious epidemic febrile disease caused by the meningococcus, producing severe headaches, vomiting, muscular spasm especially of the neck, and delirium, often marked by a skin eruption of petechial or purpuric spots, and often ending fatally

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Pathol.
an acute inflammation of the meninges of the brain and spinal cord, caused by a specific organism, accompanied by fever and occasionally red spots on the skin. Also called brain fever, cerebrospinal fever.
[1885-90]

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cerebrospinal meningitis or cerebrospinal fever,
an infectious, epidemic, febrile bacterial disease, often fatal, characterized by inflammation of the meninges of the brain and spinal cord, and causing headache, constipation, delirium, and, often, small red or purplish spots on the skin; brain fever; spotted fever; epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis.

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  • cerebrospinal meningitis — noun Date: 1889 inflammation of the meninges of both brain and spinal cord; specifically an infectious often epidemic and fatal meningitis caused by the meningococcus …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • cerebrospinal meningitis — cerebrospi′nal meningi′tis n. pat meningitis • Etymology: 1885–90 …   From formal English to slang

  • epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis — epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, = cerebrospinal meningitis. (Cf. ↑cerebrospinal meningitis) …   Useful english dictionary

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  • cerebrospinal fever — noun meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal • Syn: ↑cerebrospinal meningitis, ↑epidemic meningitis, ↑brain fever • Hypernyms: ↑meningitis * * * noun see cerebrospinal meningitis * * * …   Useful english dictionary

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