meningitisn.

Brit.

/ˌmɛnᵻnˈdʒʌɪtᵻs/, U.S.

/ˌmɛnənˈdʒaɪdᵻs/

Inflections: Plural meningitides.

Forms: 1800s menangitis, 1800s– meningitis.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French méningitis.

Etymology: < French méningitis ( F. Herpin Méningitis, ou inflammation des membranes de l'encéphale (1803)) < méninge (see meninx n.) + -itis -itis suffix. Compare French †méningité (1793), méningite (1829).The plural form is after plurals in -ides of Latin and Greek nouns in -is (compare -id suffix²).

Pathology.

Inflammation of the meninges, usually resulting from bacterial, viral, or other type of infection; an instance of this. Frequently with distinguishing word indicating the cause or site of inflammation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > inflammation of brain > meningitis

spotted fever1623

water stroke1821

meningitis1824

cerebro-spinal fever or meningitis1901

choriomeningitis1934

1824 Lancet 29 Feb. 301/1 A chronic menangitis..will probably soon prove destructive to life.

1828 J. Abercrombie Pathol. Res. Dis. Brain 51 To prevent circumlocution, I shall employ the term Meningitis to express the disease, meaning thereby the inflammation of the arachnoid, or pia mater, or both, as distinct from inflammation of the dura mater.

1873 Ladies' Repository May 326/2 The youngest of her five young children was taken seriously ill with cerebro-spinal meningitis.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 546 In most cases not due to injury meningitis..is caused by an invasion of micro-organisms.

1910 Practitioner July 65 Definite signs of post-basic meningitis or ependymitis about the fourth ventricle were found.

1946 Liberty 25 May 84/2 Dr. Thompson, the parasitologist,..discovered by examining his spinal fluid that the child had torula meningitis.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 799/1 In the large majority of cases..aseptic meningitis was the main clinical syndrome in echovirus 9 infections.

1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 695/1 The patients with lymphocytic meningitis had symptoms for more than two months, longer than one would expect for the meningitides caused by..mumps viruses.

1988 S. Quinn Mind of her Own x. 191 While traveling on business he contracted meningitis and had to be hospitalized in Cologne.

Derivatives

† meningitiform adj. Obsolete rare resembling meningitis.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1891 F. P. Foster Illustr. Encycl. Med. Dict. III. 2276/1 Meningitiform, resembling meningitis.

† meningitophobia n. Obsolete rare the occurrence of symptoms of meningitis owing to fear of the disease.

ΚΠ

1888 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. II. 335 When the disease has been epidemic, some of its symptoms have been produced by the influence of fear, in what has been termed ‘meningitophobia’.

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 133 Meningitophobia,..symptoms of cerebro-spinal meningitis produced from fear of the disease.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	meningitis
释义	meningitisn. Brit. /ˌmɛnᵻnˈdʒʌɪtᵻs/, U.S. /ˌmɛnənˈdʒaɪdᵻs/ Inflections: Plural meningitides. Forms: 1800s menangitis, 1800s– meningitis. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French méningitis. Etymology: < French méningitis ( F. Herpin Méningitis, ou inflammation des membranes de l'encéphale (1803)) < méninge (see meninx n.) + -itis -itis suffix. Compare French †méningité (1793), méningite (1829).The plural form is after plurals in -ides of Latin and Greek nouns in -is (compare -id suffix²). Pathology. Inflammation of the meninges, usually resulting from bacterial, viral, or other type of infection; an instance of this. Frequently with distinguishing word indicating the cause or site of inflammation. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > inflammation of brain > meningitis spotted fever1623 water stroke1821 meningitis1824 cerebro-spinal fever or meningitis1901 choriomeningitis1934 1824 Lancet 29 Feb. 301/1 A chronic menangitis..will probably soon prove destructive to life. 1828 J. Abercrombie Pathol. Res. Dis. Brain 51 To prevent circumlocution, I shall employ the term Meningitis to express the disease, meaning thereby the inflammation of the arachnoid, or pia mater, or both, as distinct from inflammation of the dura mater. 1873 Ladies' Repository May 326/2 The youngest of her five young children was taken seriously ill with cerebro-spinal meningitis. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 546 In most cases not due to injury meningitis..is caused by an invasion of micro-organisms. 1910 Practitioner July 65 Definite signs of post-basic meningitis or ependymitis about the fourth ventricle were found. 1946 Liberty 25 May 84/2 Dr. Thompson, the parasitologist,..discovered by examining his spinal fluid that the child had torula meningitis. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 799/1 In the large majority of cases..aseptic meningitis was the main clinical syndrome in echovirus 9 infections. 1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 695/1 The patients with lymphocytic meningitis had symptoms for more than two months, longer than one would expect for the meningitides caused by..mumps viruses. 1988 S. Quinn Mind of her Own x. 191 While traveling on business he contracted meningitis and had to be hospitalized in Cologne. Derivatives † meningitiform adj. Obsolete rare resembling meningitis.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1891 F. P. Foster Illustr. Encycl. Med. Dict. III. 2276/1 Meningitiform, resembling meningitis. † meningitophobia n. Obsolete rare the occurrence of symptoms of meningitis owing to fear of the disease. ΚΠ 1888 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. II. 335 When the disease has been epidemic, some of its symptoms have been produced by the influence of fear, in what has been termed ‘meningitophobia’. 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 133 Meningitophobia,..symptoms of cerebro-spinal meningitis produced from fear of the disease. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1824
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