cerebrospinal meningitis
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.
Origin of cerebrospinal meningitis
1- Also called brain fever, cerebrospinal fever.
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How to use cerebrospinal meningitis in a sentence
Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis is a very fatal disease at times in America.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyThis disease may be mistaken at times for foreign bodies in the mouth or for the so-called cerebrospinal meningitis.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse | United States Department of AgricultureSometimes, however, there are epidemics of cerebrospinal meningitis—spotted fever, as it used to be called.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyIn cerebrospinal meningitis the causative agent is unknown, but probably exists in the feed.
Special Report on Diseases of Cattle | U.S. Department of Agriculture
British Dictionary definitions for cerebrospinal meningitis
an acute infectious form of meningitis caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, characterized by high fever, skin rash, delirium, stupor, and sometimes coma: Also called: epidemic meningitis
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