BRAIN FEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brain fever mean? 

• BRAIN FEVER (noun)
  The noun BRAIN FEVER has 1 sense:

1. meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal

  Familiarity information: BRAIN FEVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAIN FEVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

brain fever; cerebrospinal fever; cerebrospinal meningitis; epidemic meningitis

Hypernyms ("brain fever" is a kind of...):

meningitis (infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea)

 Context examples 

"He thought he saw some one who recalled something terrible, something which led to his brain fever."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We found that the news of the arrival of the packet—for her illness dated from that time—had such an effect upon her as to bring on brain fever.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A shock, and after brain fever so soon!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Did he get his brain fever, and then write all those terrible things, or had he some cause for it all?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He has been under our care for nearly six weeks, suffering from a violent brain fever.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You know I have had brain fever, and that is to be mad.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)