brain fever

noun

1. cerebrospinal meningitis.

brain fever

noun

1. inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes

Word History and Origins

Origin of brain fever¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

He has been under our care for nearly six weeks, suffering from a violent brain fever.

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In his brain fever he raved incessantly of the poor dead girl, and for several weeks his life was despaired of.

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She died of brain fever at the early age of thirty-three, one of the most honored of female English artists.

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The child had been sick with brain fever; I learned that after I got there.

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The caller drones out the numbers with a monotony only equalled by the brain-fever bird, and quite as disastrous to the nerves.

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