Most meningitis is caused by bacteria and viruses that often live in our bodies. Usually these germs stay in the intestines or in the nose and throat, where they may or may not make us sick. But if they spread to the tissues (meninges ) that surround the brain and spinal cord, they cause inflammation.
Raisin cake. Cake is a form of sweet dessert that is typically baked. In its oldest forms, cakes were modifications of breads, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and that share features with other desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.
As nouns the difference between cake and torte is that cake is a rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing while torte is a rich, dense cake, typically made with many eggs and relatively little flour (as opposed to a sponge cake or ).