LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS

[lymphocytic cho.rio.men.in.gi.tis] n [NL choriomeningitis cerebral meningitis, fr. chorio- of a membrane resembling the chorion] (1934): an acute virus disease that is characterized by fever, nausea and vomiting, headache, stiff neck, and slow pulse, is marked by the presence of numerous lymphocytes in the cerebrospinal fluid, and is transmitted esp. by rodents and bloodsucking insects