CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebrospinal meningitis mean? 

• CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS (noun)
  The noun CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS has 1 sense:

1. meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal

  Familiarity information: CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

brain fever; cerebrospinal fever; cerebrospinal meningitis; epidemic meningitis

Hypernyms ("cerebrospinal meningitis" is a kind of...):

meningitis (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)

 Context examples 

N. meningitidis, known commonly as meningococcus, is the causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis, but is also associated with other human infections, but can be commensal in the oropharynx and nasopharynx of carriers.

(Neisseria meningitidis, NCI Thesaurus)