meningitis

meningitis
A bodily infirmity. First Nat. Bank v Equitable Life Assur. Soc. 225 Ala 586, 144 So 451. A disease of the brain and the spinal cord often resulting in mental derangement and insanity. Tiffany v Tiffany, 84 Iowa 122, 126.

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