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- Dura mater - - The tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- frequently abbreviated to dura.
- Arachnoid - a. - Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.
- Tentorium - n. - A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.
- Falx - n. - A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.
- Pachymeningitis - n. - Inflammation of the dura mater or outer membrane of the brain.