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EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does epidemic meningitis mean?
• EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS (noun)
The noun EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS has 1 sense:
1. meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal
Familiarity information: EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("epidemic meningitis" 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)
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