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Webster 1913 Edition

Meningitis

Menˊin-gi′tis

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Noun.

[NL. See

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(Med.)

Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord.

Cerebro-spinal meningitis

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See under

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Definition 2025

Meningitis

Meningitis

See also: meningitis

German

Noun

Meningitis f ‎(genitive Meningitis, plural Meningitden)

meningitis

meningitis

meningitis

See also: Meningitis

English

Noun

meningitis ‎(countable and uncountable, plural meningitides)

(pathology) Inflammation of the meninges, characterized by headache, neck stiffness and photophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting and myalgia.

Derived terms

Translations

inflammation of the meninges

Armenian: մենինգիտ (hy) ‎(meningit)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 腦膜炎 (zh), 脑膜炎 (zh) ‎(nǎomóyán)
Czech: meningitida f, zánět mozkových blan m
Dutch: nekkramp (nl)
Finnish: meningiitti (fi), aivokalvontulehdus (fi)
French: méningite (fr) f
German: Hirnhautentzündung (de) f
Hungarian: agyhártyagyulladás (hu)

Icelandic: heilahimnubólga (is) f, mengisbólga (is) f
Japanese: 髄膜炎 ‎(ずいまくえん, zuimakuen)
Korean: 뇌수막염 ‎(noesumagyeom)
Maori: kiriuhi uakakā, mate kiriuhi uakakā
Persian: مننژیت (fa) ‎(menanžit)
Portuguese: meningite (pt) f
Romanian: meningită (ro) f
Russian: менинги́т (ru) m ‎(meningít)
Scottish Gaelic: am fiabhras-eanchainne m
Spanish: meningitis (es) f
Swedish: hjärnhinneinflammation c, meningit (sv) c
Turkish: menenjit (tr)

Spanish

Noun

meningitis f ‎(plural meningitis)

meningitis