meningo-
(mɪˈnɪŋgəʊ)
combining form of Gr. µῆνιγξ meninx in a number of pathological and other terms, of which the following are the most important: meˈningocele (-siːl) [cf. cele n.], hernia of the meninges of the brain or spinal cord; meˌningo-cereˈbritis = meningo-encephalitis; meˌningoˈcoccal, -ˈcoccic adjs., of, pertaining to, involving, or caused by a meningococcus; meningo-coccus, a coccus supposed to be the cause of cerebro-spinal fever; meˌningo-encephaˈlitis, inflammation of the membranes of the brain and the adjoining cerebral tissue; meˌningo-enˈcephalocele [encephalocele], the protrusion of brain substance and meninges through a hole in the skull; the mass so protruded; meˌningo-enˌcephalomyeˈlitis [encephalomyelitis s.v. encephalo-], inflammation of the meninges, brain, and spinal cord; † meningo-ˈgastric fever Obs. = gastric fever; meˌningo-maˈlacia, ‘softening of the membranes of the brain’ (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1856); meˌningo-myeˈlitis, inflammation of the spinal cord and its membranes; hence meˌningo-myeˈlitic a.; meˌningo-ˈmyelocele, a hernial tumour of the spinal cord (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1890); = myelomeningocele; meˌningo-raˈchidian a. [rachis], pertaining to the meninges and the spine; meningoˈrrhagia, hæmorrhage of the meninges of the brain. (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
| 1867 Bienn. Retrosp. Med., etc. (Syd. Soc.) 423 A case of *meningocele in the occipital region. |
| 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 499 The chronic *meningo-cerebritis of general paralysis. |
| 1907 Edin. Med. Jrnl. LXIV. 227 One case..associated with tubercular meningitis..clearly falls..into line with *meningococcal arthritis. 1949 H. W. Florey in H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics I. i. 23 Meningococcal carriers were successfully cleared of micro-organisms. 1966 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 2 May 391 (heading) Meningococcal disease, 1965. |
| 1907 Jrnl. Med. Res. XVII. 229 Seven different antigonococcic serums and a *meningococcic serum. 1950 Amer. Jrnl. Med. VIII. 468 (heading) Cause of death in meningococcic infection. |
| 1893 Dunglison Med. Dict. (ed. 21), *Meningo-coccus. 1897 Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. IX. 189 An organism resembling the meningococcus was found. |
| 1872 Cohen Dis. Throat 206 Consecutive *meningo-encephalitis. |
| 1891 F. P. Foster Med. Dict. III. 2277/1 *Meningo-encephalocele, a tumour of the head analogous to hydro-myelocele. 1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 June 1542/1 (heading) Case of meningo-encephalocele treated by excision of the mass. 1964 S. Duke-Elder Parson's Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxxiii. 529 Clinically they [sc. dermoid cysts of the orbit] may be mistaken for meningo-encephaloceles, protrusions of the cerebral contents, which usually occur at the upper and inner angle where there are most sutures between bones. |
| 1900 Dorland Med. Dict. 381/1 *Meningo-encephalomyelitis. 1966 Wright & Symmers Systemic Path. II. xxxiv. 1199 Myalgic Meningoencephalomyelitis. An extensive epidemic of a benign myalgic encephalomyelitis occurred among the staff of the Royal Free Hospital in London, in 1955. |
| 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 887 Any chronic *meningo-myelitic process. |
| 1897 Ibid. III. 68 A case in which *meningo-myelitis was found at the autopsy. |
| 1885 Trans. Clin. Soc. XVIII. 340 Protrusion of the membranes together with the spinal cord and its appertaining nerves, *meningo-myelocele. 1966 Wright & Symmers Systemic Path. II. viii. 1234/2 In its least serious form, spina bifida occulta, there is incomplete closure of one or more of the vertebral arches... In a more serious and commoner variety, meningomyelocele, the spinal cord is involved, and portions of its posterior columns may be stretched out in the wall of the subcutaneous cystic swelling. |
| 1842 E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. (ed. 2) 351 The *Meningo-rachidian veins are situated between the theca vertebralis and the vertebræ. |