meningitis - Similar and Opposite Words

What is another word for meningitis ?

Here are the synonyms for meningitis , a list of similar words for meningitis from our thesaurus that you can use

Noun

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

Synonyms

• meningitis

More generic

• infectious disease

More specific

• brain fever
• cerebromeningitis
• cerebrospinal fever
• cerebrospinal meningitis
• choriomeningitis
• encephalomeningitis
• epidemic meningitis
• leptomeningitis
• meningoencephalitis

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