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English noun: meningitis

1. meningitis (state) 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


Broader (hypernym)infectious disease


Narrower (hyponym)brain fever, cerebromeningitis, cerebrospinal fever, cerebrospinal meningitis, choriomeningitis, encephalomeningitis, epidemic meningitis, leptomeningitis, meningoencephalitis









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