Definition of "meningeal" [me•nin•ge•al]

• Of or affecting the meninges. (adjective)

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• "The researchers then turned their attention to case-control studies - comparisons of patients ( 'cases') against healthy volunteers ( 'controls') - to see whether genetic variants in the LTA4H region affected susceptibility to mycobacterial infection in humans, examining patients in Vietnam with a particularly dangerous form of TB known as meningeal TB, and patients in Nepal with leprosy."
• "When compound, the wound must be disinfected; and intra-cranial complications, such as meningeal hæmorrhage, laceration of the brain, or infection, are to be treated on the lines already described."
• "A postmortem revealed, however, that it was meningeal tuberculosis, not drink, that had done for him."