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encephalomeningitis
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | encephalomeningitis - inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meningescerebromeningitis, meningoencephalitismeningitis - 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 nauseacephalitis, 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) |
EncyclopediaSeemeningoencephalitisencephalomeningitis
meningoencephalitis [mĕ-ning″go-en-sef″ah-li´tis] inflammation of the brain and its meninges; called also encephalomeningitis.primary amebic meningoencephalitis a rare and often fatal acute, febrile, purulent meningoencephalitis caused by usually free-living soil and water amebas of the genera Naegleria, Acanthamoeba, and Hartmannella.me·nin·go·en·ceph·a·li·tis (mĕ-ning'gō-en-sef-ă-lī'tis), An inflammation of the brain and its membranes. Synonym(s): cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis [meningo- + G. enkephalos, brain, + -itis, inflammation] me·nin·go·en·ceph·a·li·tis (mĕ-ning'gō-en-sef'ăl-ī'tis) An inflammation of the brain and its membranes.
Synonym(s): cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis. [meningo- + G. enkephalos, brain, + -itis, inflammation]encephalomeningitis
Synonyms for encephalomeningitisnoun inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meningesSynonyms- cerebromeningitis
- meningoencephalitis
Related Words- meningitis
- cephalitis
- encephalitis
- phrenitis
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