1. (noun) 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

• brain fever
• cerebrospinal fever
• cerebrospinal meningitis
• epidemic meningitis
• cerebromeningitis
• encephalomeningitis
• meningoencephalitis
• choriomeningitis
• leptomeningitis

1. (noun) 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

• infectious disease