MENINGITIS as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Hypernyms(s) meningitis is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • infectious disease (what does infectious disease mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • choriomeningitis (what does choriomeningitis mean?)
   • cerebrospinal meningitis (what does cerebrospinal meningitis mean?)
   • epidemic meningitis (what does epidemic meningitis mean?)
   • brain fever (what does brain fever mean?)
   • cerebrospinal fever (what does cerebrospinal fever mean?)
   • meningoencephalitis (what does meningoencephalitis mean?)
   • cerebromeningitis (what does cerebromeningitis mean?)
   • encephalomeningitis (what does encephalomeningitis mean?)
   • leptomeningitis (what does leptomeningitis mean?)