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brain fever

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brain fever
n.
Inflammation of the brain or meninges, as in encephalitis or meningitis.
brain fever
n
(Medicine / Pathology) inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes
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Noun1.brain fever - meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal
cerebrospinal fever, cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic meningitis
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


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John May in the meantime had grown rapidly worse with what the local physician called brain fever, and in his delirium raved of murder, but did not say whom he conceived to have been murdered, nor whom he imagined to have done the deed.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
I might get brain fever in a German hospital and begin to babble.
The Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
But he took it differently; he fainted, and had brain fever and convulsions.
The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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