meningitis
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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 (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | infectious disease, |
| definition | : | a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | choriomeningitis, |
| definition | : | a cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | leptomeningitis, |
| definition | : | inflammation of the leptomeninges (noun.state) |
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