CHORIOMENINGITIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("choriomeningitis" is a kind of...):

meningitis (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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "choriomeningitis"):

lymphocytic choriomeningitis (a form of viral meningitis caused by a virus carried by the common house mouse)

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