Possible signs and symptoms in anyone older than the age of 2 include: 1  Sudden high fever. 2  Stiff neck. 3  Severe headache that seems different than normal.  Headache with nausea or 1  vomiting. Confusion or difficulty concentrating. 2  Seizures. Sleepiness or difficulty waking.  Sensitivity to 1  light. No appetite or  thirst.
Lexis (linguistics) In generative linguistics, a lexis or lexicon is the complete set of all possible words in a language. In this sense, child, children, child's and children's are four different words in the English lexicon. In systemic-functional linguistics, a lexis or lexical item is the way one calls a particular thing or a type of phenomenon.
synecdoche. 1. An expression in which part of something is used to stand for the whole (as in âa sailâ to mean âa shipâ), or the whole is used to mean a part (as in âThe navy arrived.â to mean A sailor arrived.â). 2. A figure of speech where use of a part stands for the whole.