cerebrospinal fever

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   meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal

   Synonymscerebrospinal meningitisepidemic meningitisbrain fever

   Broadermeningitis

Questions about cerebrospinal fever

What does cerebrospinal fever mean?

cerebrospinal fever means "meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal".

What is another word for cerebrospinal fever?

Close synonyms include cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic meningitis, brain fever. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cerebrospinal fever a common word?

cerebrospinal fever is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.