In organic chemistry, a phosphate, or organophosphate, is an ester of phosphoric acid. Of the various phosphoric acids and phosphates, organic phosphates are important in biochemistry and biogeochemistry (ecology), and inorganic phosphates are mined to obtain phosphorus for use in agriculture and industry.
viral meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord caused by viral infection it is also called aseptic meningitis or subsumed under lymphocytic choriomeningitis lcm due to its cerebrospinal fluid csf test resultsiral meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord caused by viral infection it is also called aseptic meningitis or subsumed under lymphocytic choriomeningitis lcm due to its cerebrospinal fluid csf test results
epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis an acute infectious disease with seropurulent inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord, due to infection by Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus).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.