meningoencephalitis
- n inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges
- Reasons:1)the mumps virus often attacks the sex glands of men women, may cause sterility; 2) the aftermath of mumps may be meningoencephalitis, deafness, or nephritis .
- After consultation the physicians, sympathetic with mid-Ohio's mores, decided that the most kindly thing was to call the affliction a chronic meningoencephalitis.
- This month, however, a study in the Archives of Environmental Health reports that the 16 Virginians who died over the past 34 years of amoebic meningoencephalitis, an infection .