Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cerebrospinal_fever

1 sense of cerebrospinal fever

Sense 1
cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic meningitis, brain fever, cerebrospinal fever -- (meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal)
       => meningitis -- (infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea)