cerebrospinal meningitis

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   meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal

   Synonymsepidemic meningitisbrain fevercerebrospinal fever

   Broadermeningitis

Questions about cerebrospinal meningitis

What does cerebrospinal meningitis mean?

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

What is another word for cerebrospinal meningitis?

Close synonyms include epidemic meningitis, brain fever, cerebrospinal 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 meningitis a common word?

cerebrospinal meningitis 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.