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

Doctors are concerned about the risks of cerebrospinal meningitis, the dreaded spotted fever.

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Thus horses will help in the development of a serum to fight a new strain of cerebrospinal meningitis which, originating among Chinese workers in California last year, is moving eastward across the country.

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When businessmen complained, Dr. Adams promised to lift the quarantine after the five-day incubation period of cerebrospinal meningitis had elapsed.

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In twelve continental European countries, incidence of cerebrospinal meningitis, poliomyelitis, typhoid, dysentery, diphtheria and scarlet fever has more than doubled since war began.

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Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis is a very fatal disease at times in America.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin