cerebrospinal meningitis

noun

: inflammation of the meninges of both brain and spinal cord

specifically : an infectious often epidemic and fatal meningitis caused by the meningococcus

Word History

First Known Use

1849, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

cerebrospinal meningitis

noun

: inflammation of the meninges of both brain and spinal cord

specifically : an infectious often epidemic and fatal meningitis caused by the meningococcus

called also cerebrospinal fever