CHORIOMENINGITIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does choriomeningitis mean? 

• CHORIOMENINGITIS (noun)
  The noun CHORIOMENINGITIS has 1 sense:

1. a cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges

  Familiarity information: CHORIOMENINGITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHORIOMENINGITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("choriomeningitis" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "choriomeningitis"):

lymphocytic choriomeningitis (a form of viral meningitis caused by a virus carried by the common house mouse)

 Context examples 

Etiologic agent of lymphocytic choriomeningitis; occurs naturally in mice, dogs and monkeys.

(Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

They next watched how macrophages changed after infection by lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), which targets the meninges, causing viral meningitis.

(Meningitis changes immune cell makeup in the mouse brain lining, National Institutes of Health)