meningitis

1. 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 (synset 114161311)
   is a type of: infectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
   subtypes:

   • choriomeningitis - a cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges
   • brain fever, cerebrospinal fever, cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic meningitis - meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal
   • cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis, meningoencephalitis - inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges
   • leptomeningitis - inflammation of the leptomeninges

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