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The outermost and most fibrous of the three membranes (dura mater, arachnoid membrane, and pia mater) covering the brain and the spinal cord.
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The tough outer layer of tissue that covers and protects the brain and spinal cord and is closest to the skull. The dura mater is one of the three layers that form the meninges.
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The outermost part of the meninges
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The outermost layer of three meninges, or membranes, that surround the spinal cord and the brain. In Latin, it means "tough mother." The name is apt, because the membrane is thick and strong [..]
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"tough outer membrane surrounding the brain," c. 1400, from Medieval Latin dura mater cerebri, literally "hard mother of the brain," a loan-translation of Arabic umm al-dimagh as-s [..]
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tough, leathery outermost layer of the membranes surrounding and protecting the brain and spinal cord; lines the inside of the skull and drapes loosely around the spinal cord. Dura mater is Latin for [..]
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The outermost tough fibrous membrane that lies immediately inside the bone as part of the meninges.
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outermost layer of the meninges covering the brain and spinal cord; consists of a thick fibrous tissue that is adherent to the inner table of the skull and forms a protective sheath in [..]
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A tough fibrous membrane which covers the brain and spinal cord, but is separated from them by a small space.
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(door´ua ma´ter) The outermost meninx. dwarfism
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The strongest and outer layer of the brain and spinal cord.
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covering of brain and spinal chord (pop)
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The outermost of the three meninges that surround the brain and spinal cord. See also pia mater and arachnoid.
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 - A tough fibrous membrane which covers the brain and spinal cord, but is separated from them by a small space.
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A thin protective membrane covering the brain and spinal cord.
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The fibrous tough outer sheath surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
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the outermost of three membranes protecting the brain and spinal cord, it is tough and leather like     
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The outermost of the three Meninges, a fibrous Membrane of Connective Tissue that covers the Brain and the spinal cord.
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A tough fibrous membrane that covers the brain and spinal cord but is separated from them by a small space.
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The outermost and toughest of the three membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.
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(anatomy) The tough and inflexible outermost of the three layers of the meninges * '''1997''': Chris Horrocks, ''Introducing Foucault'', page 53 (Totem Books, Ic [..]
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a type of soft tissue that includes the pachymeninx (thick, membranous) tissue covering the brain (AATB Standards 11th edition).
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