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Pia mater   /pˈiə mˈɑtər/   Listen
Pia mater

noun
1.
The highly vascular innermost of the 3 meninges.





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"Pia mater" Quotes from Famous Books



... unto God; and therefore nature hath covered it with a skull of hard bone, and two skins or membranes, whereof the one is called dura mater, or meninx, the other pia mater. The dura mater is next to the skull, above the other, which includes and protects the brain. When this is taken away, the pia mater is to be seen, a thin membrane, the next and immediate cover of the brain, and not covering only, but entering into it. The brain itself is divided into two parts, the fore and hinder part; the fore part is much ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior


Words linked to "Pia mater" :   leptomeninges, meninx, meninges


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