Used in a Sentence

meningitis

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for meningitis.

Editorial note

Could you link to the CDC claim that 30% of the US population shows signs of exposure to spinal meningitis?

Examples14
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of meningitis gathered in one view.

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for meningitis.

noun

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

Example sentences

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Could you link to the CDC claim that 30% of the US population shows signs of exposure to spinal meningitis?

2

To get a lyme disease/meningitis test done Why do they even test for it?

3

In this particular case there may have been high risk of leaking CSF with risk of meningitis for example with the new approach used.

4

Pfizer had similar ethical failures in trialing a meningitis drug in Nigeria.

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Some people might get pneumonia and rarely do healthy people get meningitis.

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Both of these can be attributed to either lyme disease or meningitis.

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After outbreaks of meningitis B in the United States, the U.

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Five years earlier, our first daughter had died on her fourth birthday, having gone through infantile paralysis, flu, spinal meningitis and pneumonia.

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What if I am injured, get cerebral meningitis and get brain damage, etc.?

10

Eventually some spots appeared and, fearing meningitis, I went to the doctor.

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When a bunch of us were exposed to a person who 48-hours later came down with severe meningitis (coma), they dosed us all with cow pills of antibiotics.

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The same goes for bugs such as Hemophilus influenzae and Neisseria meningitidis, which can inflame the protective membranes around the brain and lead to life-threatening cases of bacterial meningitis.

Quote examples

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Well, children have started to die,” Offit says, frowning as he ticks off recent fatal cases of meningitis in unvaccinated children in Pennsylvania and Minnesota.

Proper noun examples

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Meningitis is either bacterial or viral.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use meningitis in a sentence?

Could you link to the CDC claim that 30% of the US population shows signs of exposure to spinal meningitis?

What does meningitis mean?

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

What part of speech is meningitis?

meningitis is commonly used as noun.