listeria meningitis
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
7
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
n
an infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed persons) caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes; in sheep and cattle the infection frequently involves the central nervous system and causes various neurological symptoms