- 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
--1 is a kind of infectious disease
--1 has particulars:choriomeningitis; cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic meningitis, brain fever, cerebrospinal fever; meningoencephalitis, cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis; leptomeningitis