meningitis

See also: Meningitis

English

Noun

meningitis (countable and uncountable, plural meningitides)

(pathology) Inflammation of the meninges, characterized by headache, neck stiffness and photophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting and myalgia.

Derived terms

Translations

inflammation of the meninges

Armenian: մենինգիտ (hy) (meningit)
Catalan: meningitis (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 腦膜炎 (zh), 脑膜炎 (zh) (nǎomóyán)
Czech: meningitida f, zánět mozkových blan m
Dutch: hersenvliesontsteking (nl) f, meningitis (nl) f, nekkramp (nl) (colloquial)
Finnish: meningiitti (fi), aivokalvontulehdus (fi)
French: méningite (fr) f
German: Hirnhautentzündung (de) f
Hungarian: agyhártyagyulladás (hu)
Icelandic: heilahimnubólga (is) f, mengisbólga (is) f
Japanese: 髄膜炎 (ずいまくえん, zuimakuen)

Korean: 뇌수막염 (noesumagyeom)
Latvian: meningīts m
Maori: kiriuhi uakakā, mate kiriuhi uakakā
Persian: مننژیت‎ (fa) (menanžit)
Portuguese: meningite (pt) f
Romanian: meningită (ro) f
Russian: менинги́т (ru) m (meningít)
Scottish Gaelic: am fiabhras-eanchainne m
Spanish: meningitis (es) f
Swedish: hjärnhinneinflammation c, meningit (sv) c
Turkish: menenjit (tr)

Spanish

Etymology

meninge +‎ -itis

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /meninˈxitis/, [menĩŋˈxit̪is]

Noun

meningitis f (plural meningitis)

meningitis

Further reading

“meningitis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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