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pseudomeningitis

pseudomeningitis noun: a condition that resembles, but is not in fact, meningitis.

Noun

pseudomeningitis (uncountable)

  1. A condition that resembles, but is not in fact, meningitis.
    • […] who recognized the condition at a time when meningitis was considered almost synonymous with hydrocephalus. The term is now disappearing from medical literature and these cases are more often called pseudomeningitis. As we have already said, the symptom complex of pseudomeningitis develops...1897, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Twentieth Century Practice: Diseases of the nervous system, page 410

Synonyms of pseudomeningitis

Origin of pseudomeningitis

From pseudo- + meningitis.

Questions about pseudomeningitis

What does pseudomeningitis mean?
Pseudomeningitis means a condition that resembles, but is not in fact, meningitis.
What part of speech is pseudomeningitis?
Pseudomeningitis is a noun.

Words near pseudomeningitis in the dictionary

  1. pseudomembraneous
  2. pseudomembranes
  3. pseudomembranous
  4. pseudomemories
  5. pseudomemory
  6. pseudomeningitis
  7. pseudomeningocele
  8. pseudomeningoceles
  9. pseudomenopause
  10. pseudomenopauses
  11. pseudomenses

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