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epidemic meningitis

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noun

  1. another name for cerebrospinal meningitis

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Last week, for the first time in its 17 years of rule, the Communist regime admitted the existence of an epidemic; meningitis spread through four southern provinces.

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Common sense has also proved stronger than theory in excluding mercurials from the treatment of epidemic meningitis.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

PROGNOSIS.—In the section relating to the mortality of epidemic meningitis it has been seen that its death-rate varies at different times and places between widely remote extremes.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

It is unnecessary to dwell upon the condition in which other organs are found after death from epidemic meningitis.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

From the earliest history of epidemic meningitis in this country blisters formed a conspicuous element in the treatment.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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