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Meningitis

noun

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.

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"Meningitis" Quotes from Famous Books

... externally, pyogenic infection is almost inevitable, and the patient gradually passes into the condition of hectic fever or chronic toxaemia; he loses ground from day to day, may become the subject of waxy disease in the viscera, or may die of exhaustion, tuberculous meningitis, or ...

— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

Words linked to "Meningitis" : brain fever, infectious disease, encephalomeningitis, meningoencephalitis, cerebrospinal fever