cerebrospinal meningitis

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. 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.

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cerebrospinal meningitis British  

noun

1. Also called: epidemic meningitis.  an acute infectious form of meningitis caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, characterized by high fever, skin rash, delirium, stupor, and sometimes coma

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Etymology

Origin of cerebrospinal meningitis

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Sometimes, however, there are epidemics of cerebrospinal meningitis—spotted fever, as it used to be called.

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In earlier times it was evidently confounded with gloss anthrax, and even now it is probably mistaken in a great many instances for anthrax, blackleg, cornstalk disease, and cerebrospinal meningitis.

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At present, rabies, tetanus, diphtheria, and cerebrospinal meningitis are the four diseases for which antitoxin is made commercially and generally used.

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The accompanying illustration shows how these bacteria appear under the microscope; the drawing was made from fluid taken from the spinal canal of a patient suffering from cerebrospinal meningitis.

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It has often been said to produce that peculiar disease known variously as cerebrospinal meningitis, putrid sore throat, or choking distemper.

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