8. Use italics to denote legal cases. When you need to provide the name of a legal case in a paper, italicize the case title including v. . You should also italicize the legal case name on your works cited page or bibliography. 1  The famous case of Gideon v. Wainwright was a landmark in American legal history.
â¢ MENINGITIS (noun). The noun MENINGITIS has 1 sense: 1. infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea.Familiarity information: MENINGITIS used as a noun is very rare.eaning: Infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea. Classified under: Nouns denoting stable states of affairs.
Meningitis and encephalitis are inflammatory diseases of the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord and are caused by bacterial or viral infections. Viral meningitis is sometimes called aseptic meningitis to indicate it is not the result of bacterial infection and cannot be treated with antibiotics.