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cerebrospinal meningitis

 
–noun Pathology.
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.
Also called brain fever, cerebrospinal fever.

Origin:
1885–90
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brain fever  
n.  Inflammation of the brain or meninges, as in encephalitis or meningitis.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Main Entry: cerebrospinal meningitis
Function: noun
: inflammation of the meninges of both brain and spinal cord; specifically : an infectious epidemicand often fatal meningitis caused by the meningococcus called also cerebrospinal fever
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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brain fever n.
Inflammation of the brain or meninges.

cerebrospinal meningitis n.
See meningococcal meningitis.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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