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.
cerebrospinal meningitis. an inflammation of the brain and spinal cord; it may be caused by many different organisms. Pug meningitis. see Pug meningoencephalitis. spinal meningitis. inflammation of the meninges of the spinal cord.he fulminating or malignant form is known as Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome. spinal meningitis inflammation of the meninges of the spinal cord. viral meningitis meningitis due to any of various viruses, such as a coxsackievirus or the mumps virus, with lymphocytes in the cerebrospinal fluid.