HOW TO PRONOUNCE
meningitis
/ˌmɛnɪnˈdʒaɪtɪs/
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What does meningitis mean?
noun
- Inflammation of the meninges, characterized by headache, neck stiffness and photophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting and myalgia.
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/ˌmɛnɪnˈdʒaɪtɪs/
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At 2 years of age Hazel was very ill with gastritis and what was said to be spinal meningitis.
He grew alarmingly ill, and the ship's doctor told me that he had developed tubercular meningitis, and that his recovery was impossible.
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Unhygienic conditions, as unsanitary and poorly ventilated stables and filthy drinking places, play a very important part in the production of the simple or acute form of meningitis.