dura mater

English

Etymology

First attested circa 1400, from Medieval Latin dura mater cerebri (literally “hard mother of the brain”), a loan translation of Arabic أُمّ الدِّمَاغ الصَفِيقَة‎ (ʾumm ad-dimāḡ aṣ-ṣafīqa, literally “thick mother of the brain, matrix of the brain”).

Noun

dura mater

(anatomy) The tough and inflexible outermost of the three layers of the meninges
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 53 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
  Hmm, false membranes are adhering to the arachnoidian layer of the dura mater. I’m directing my gaze into a world of constant visibility. Where does it hurt?

Translations

anatomy: outermost layer of the meninges

Arabic: الأم الجافية‎ (al-umm al-jāfiya)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 硬脑膜, 硬脊膜
Dutch: Hard hersenvlies, Dura mater
Finnish: kovakalvo (fi)
French: dure-mère (fr)
German: Dura mater (de)
Ido: duramatro (io)

Italian: dura madre, duramadre f
Polish: opona twarda f
Portuguese: dura-máter f
Russian: Твёрдая мозговая оболочка (Tvjórdaja mozgovaja oboločka)
Serbo-Croatian: tvrda moždana ovojnica f
Spanish: duramadre (es)
Swedish: hårda hjärnhinnan c

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