meninges
plural noun
the three membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.
meningeal
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a word derived from
meninges.
Example Sentences
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Albayram previously helped visualize these meningeal lymphatic vessels in humans, as reported in a 2022 Nature Communications study.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2026
So you’ll see holes in the brain that you would get in encephalitis, as well as a meningeal infection.
From Scientific American ● May 22, 2023
It is located midsagittally between the meningeal and periosteal layers of the dura mater within the falx cerebri and, at first glance in images or models, can be mistaken for the subarachnoid space.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Untreated, both meningeal and miliary tuberculosis commonly kill within two or three months, and about one-third of the victims get only temporary help from streptomycin.
From Time Magazine Archive
In cases which terminate fatally, death usually results from meningeal, pulmonary, or general tuberculosis, or from pyogenic complications and waxy degeneration.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
