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

1 sense of meningitis

Sense 1
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)
       => infectious disease -- (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)