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 | ||