Definition of "choriomeningitis" [choriomeningitis]

• A form of cerebral meningitis associated with inflammation of the choroid plexus (noun)

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• "Officer, Lysia had an outbreak of Vegan choriomeningitis only a year ago."
• "Edinburgh at the end of 1971, his interests being mostly in inflammatory processes in the brain, particularly in mice with the Semliki Forest virus or with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV)."
• "At first I studied the pathogenesis of Semliki Forest virus infection in the mouse, then switched to the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) model which was a much more powerful tool for immunological analysis."