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Meninges

noun
1.
A membrane (one of 3) that envelops the brain and spinal cord.  Synonym: meninx.



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"Meninges" Quotes from Famous Books



... is accumulated in the ventricules of the brain; on this idea the inactivity of the optic or auditory nerves in these fevers may arise from the compression of the effused fluid; while the torpor attending putrid fever may depend on the meninges of the brain being thickened by inflammation, and thus compressing it; now the new vessels, or the blood, which thickens inflamed parts, is more frequently reabsorbed, than the effused fluid from a cavity; and hence the stupor in one case is less ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... Thus, the typhoid fever bacillus thrives in a certain kind of effete matter which accumulates in the intestines; the pneumonia bacilli flourish best in the catarrhal secretions of the lungs, and meningitis bacilli in the diseased meninges of the ...
— Nature Cure • Henry Lindlahr


Words linked to "Meninges" :   leptomeninges, meningeal, membrane, subarachnoid space, meninx, dura, pia mater, arachnoid membrane, tissue layer, dura mater, arachnoid


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