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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In anatomy, pertaining to one of the membranes enveloping the brain, as the dura mater or pia mater: in composition.

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  • The dura-matral lining membrane, A A A*, of the cranial chamber is continuous with the lining membrane, C, of the spinal canal.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The tegumentary envelope of the head, as well as the dura-matral lining, serves to damp cranial vibration consequent upon concussion; while the sutural isolation of the several component bones of the cranium also prevents, in some degree, the extension of fractures and the vibrations of concussion.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Now as the cranio-spinal chamber is lined by the common dura-matral membrane, and contains the common mass of nervous structure, thus inviting us to fix attention upon this structure as a whole, so we find that the frontal cavity, Z, the nasal cavity, X W, the oral cavity, 4,

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The dura-matral falx; A*, its attachment to the tentorium.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • [Footnote 12: A coagulum of blood, the thickness of a crown-piece, was found lying upon the external surface of the dura-matral covering of the medulla spinalis, extending from the fourth vertebra colli to the second vertebra dorsi.

    An Essay on the Shaking Palsy James Parkinson

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