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BRAIN FEVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal
Synonyms:
brain fever; cerebrospinal fever; cerebrospinal meningitis; epidemic meningitis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("brain fever" is a kind of...):
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)
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