pachymeningitis

/ ˌpækɪˌmɛnɪnˈdʒaɪtɪs /

noun

1. pathol inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord

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He was also diagnosed with pachymeningitis, a rare form of diffuse inflammatory disease.

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Effects on the Spinal Cord and Nerve Roots.—In some cases the cord and nerve roots are pressed upon by an œdematous swelling of the membranes; in others, the tuberculous process attacks the dura mater and gives rise to the formation of granulation tissue on its outer aspect—tuberculous pachymeningitis.

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He believes it to consist in a pachymeningitis combined with a certain degree of sclero-gliosis of the periphery of the cord.

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Pachymeningitis.—This term is applied when the infection involves the dura mater—a condition which is usually due to the spread of infection from a localised osseous lesion, such as erosion of the tegmen tympani in chronic suppuration of the middle ear, of the wall of the sigmoid groove in mastoid disease, or of the posterior wall of the frontal sinus in suppuration of that cavity.

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The layer of the dura in contact with the affected portion of bone is inflamed, thickened, and covered with a layer of granulations—external pachymeningitis—and between it and the bone there is an effusion of fluid.

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