encephalomeningitis
Noun
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Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges (synset 114366816)
is a type 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)
same as: cerebromeningitis, meningoencephalitis
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