MENINGOENCEPHALITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meningoencephalitis mean? 

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

1. inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENINGOENCEPHALITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cerebromeningitis; encephalomeningitis; meningoencephalitis

Hypernyms ("meningoencephalitis" 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)

cephalitis; encephalitis; phrenitis (inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever ('phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use))

 Context examples 

G. sanguinis is rarely isolated from clinical samples but may be a causative agent of meningoencephalitis.

(Globicatella sanguinis, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients may develop seizures, hydrocephalus, encephalopathy and meningoencephalitis.

(Cysticercosis, NCI Thesaurus)