释义 |
cerebrospinal meningitis noun or cerebrospinal fever : inflammation of the membranes enveloping the brain and spinal cord in man or animals; specifically : an infectious epidemic febrile disease caused by the meningococcus, producing severe headaches, vomiting, muscular spasm especially of the neck, and delirium, often marked by a skin eruption of petechial or purpuric spots, and often ending fatally |