How to Use meningitis in a Sentence

meningitis

noun
Definition of meningitisnext
  • She was diagnosed with spinal meningitis.
  • Viral meningitis is like colds and the flu in that most people recover on their own in a week or so.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Most troubling, the snails can carry rat lungworm, which is known to cause meningitis.
    — al, 8 July 2022
  • Joan was 6 when her younger sister, Barbara Joy, died of spinal meningitis at 3.
    — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Her actions in that instance likely saved lives—the meningitis B was contained and the Gram stain later proved to be wrong.
    — Cody Delistraty, WSJ, 3 May 2021
  • Treatment options involved are based on the cause of meningitis.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 9 Aug. 2022
  • There, a spinal tap led to a diagnosis of meningitis caused by Valley fever.
    — Fox News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • That's what happened with the meningitis B vaccine for infants.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Pfizer has maintained that the children died of meningitis.
    — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Of those three children, an eight-month-old girl was reportedly found to have died from acute meningitis, and Tinning claimed the two- and four-year-old kids had died from seizures.
    — Fox News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Now, experts have confirmed the shark died from a brain infection called meningitis.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
  • But In 1999, a case of bacterial meningitis led to septic shock, the loss of her kidney and spleen, and the amputations of both her legs just below the knees.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Two aunts, deaf and mute from meningitis, bring the house down, with their shoulders fluttering like butterflies.
    — Rick Steves, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2021
  • At 18 months old, Aaron fell into a coma while battling spinal meningitis.
    — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2021
  • The cause appears to have been a sudden case of bacterial meningitis.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The country has declared an outbreak of meningitis in its north-eastern Tshopo province.
    — Disha Shetty, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
  • More severe symptoms are stiffness of the neck, inflammation of the brain and/or meningitis.
    — Mackenzie Brower, The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Some develop encephalitis and meningitis, which are fancy words for inflammation of the brain or the membranes that wrap around the brain and spinal cord.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • Months later, Kathy’s brother, who was a paramedic, contracted meningitis from one of his patients and died at just 29 years old.
    — Andrea Cavallier, NBC News, 6 June 2021
  • The disease is a more serious form of meningitis, an inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
    — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The infection led to a severe case of meningitis that caused irreparable brain damage.
    — Laura Reiley and Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The bacterium can get into their bloodstreams and cause meningitis.
    — NBC News, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Their children had died of meningitis, leukemia, or glioma; their sons had been killed in action in Germany or died in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps.
    — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The film explains that the main character lost his hearing after falling ill with meningitis as a toddler, and around the same time, his father left the family home.
    — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • That sounded to Bush like meningitis, an infection in membranes around the spinal cord and brain that can be caused by several organisms.
    — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Part of his past work involved contact tracing a meningitis outbreak on an airplane.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The distinction was created in 2013 as part of a federal law passed in response to a fatal outbreak of meningitis traced to a large compounder.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Dowse had recently fell into a coma brought on by a virulent form of meningitis.
    — Variety, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The two most common types of meningococcal infections are meningitis, which is an infection of the lining of the brain and the spinal cord, and bloodstream infection, according to the CDC.
    — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Giant African land snails can carry a parasite called rat lungworm, known to cause meningitis in humans and livestock.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2022

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