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Brain fever   /breɪn fˈivər/   Listen
Brain fever

noun
1.
Meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal.  Synonyms: cerebrospinal fever, cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic meningitis.






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"Brain fever" Quotes from Famous Books



... not recognize that it was small talk," said Hugh, with a faint smile. "If it really is, I can only say I shall have brain fever if you pass on to what ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley

... too much for me!" he muttered. "I'm sure to go into brain fever! I can't comprehend ...
— Frank Merriwell's Cruise • Burt L. Standish

... scene they ever witnessed. Silently, almost breathlessly, they drew out the nails, expecting to find a corpse. When the cover was lifted, she smiled faintly in the anxious face of her lover. "O God, she is alive!" he exclaimed, and broke down in a paroxysm of sobs. She had a terrible brain fever, and when she recovered from it, her glossy hair was sprinkled with gray, and the weight of ten years was added to her youthful face. Thanks to the vigilance and secrecy of friends, the hounds of the United States, who use ...
— The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act - Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 9, An Appeal To The Legislators Of Massachusetts • Lydia Maria Child

... illness to be brain fever of a serious type, and Lady Linton knew, from the grave look on the wise man's face, that he had but very little hope ...
— Virgie's Inheritance • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... aroused, and Mr. Morgan summoned as the family medical practitioner. From him she had learned that Nora Avenel had returned to her father's house late on the previous evening, had been seized with brain fever, and ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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