What is another word for meningitis?
Synonyms for meningitis
ˌmɛn ɪnˈdʒaɪ tɪsmenin·gi·tis
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Princeton's WordNet
meningitisnoun
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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How to use meningitis in a sentence?
This is the original Ebola virus that she had many months ago which has been inside the brain, replicating at a very low level probably, and which has now re-emerged to cause this clinical illness of meningitis.
When it gets to the brain, you can have eosinophilic meningitis.
Since 2005 we’ve had a vaccine to protect against four of the five types of meningococcal meningitis and blood infections and those are the A, C, W and Y types.
Over 50 million doses have been distributed, and this rare side effect has only been described in a handful of cases, in contrast, meningitis is a well-known complication of chickenpox and pose a far greater risk to children.
What happens is that the parasite gets into humans -- humans are not the host that it can complete its life cycle in, as opposed to being in a rat -- so when it gets in a human, it can get lost, and it will go to the brain, and it'll stay there, when it gets to the brain, you can have eosinophilic meningitis.
Translations for meningitis
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- التهاب السحاياArabic
- meningitida, zánět mozkových blanCzech
- Meningitis, HirnhautentzündungGerman
- meningitisSpanish
- aivokalvontulehdus, meningiittiFinnish
- méningiteFrench
- fiabhras-eanchainneScottish Gaelic
- agyhártyagyulladásHungarian
- մենինգիտArmenian
- heilahimnubólga, mengisbólgaIcelandic
- meningiteItalian
- 髄膜炎Japanese
- 뇌수막염Korean
- nekkrampDutch
- meningitePortuguese
- менингитRussian
- meningit, hjärnhinneinflammationSwedish
- menenjitTurkish
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