MENINGEAL • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Meningeal

... inflammation. Concussion is a common effect of blows or violent shocks, and the symptoms follow immediately on the accident, death sometimes taking place without reaction. Compression may be caused by depressed bone or effused blood (rupture of middle meningeal artery) and serum. The symptoms may come on suddenly or gradually. Wounds of the brain present very great difficulties, and vary greatly in their effect, very slight wounds producing severe symptoms, and vice versa. A person may receive an injury to the head, recover ...

— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson