#meningitis  infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea
  supertype:  #infectious_disease  a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
  subtype:  #cerebrospinal_meningitis__epidemic_meningitis__brain_fever__brainfever__cerebrospinal_fever__cerebrospinalfever  meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal
  subtype:  #leptomeningitis  inflammation of the leptomeninges

No statement uses or specializes #meningitis; click here to add one.