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LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lymphocytic choriomeningitis mean?
• LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS (noun)
The noun LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS has 1 sense:
1. a form of viral meningitis caused by a virus carried by the common house mouse
Familiarity information: LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A form of viral meningitis caused by a virus carried by the common house mouse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("lymphocytic choriomeningitis" is a kind of...):
choriomeningitis (a cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges)
Context examples
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)
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