paraxial mesoderm. The dura mater has several functions and layers. The dura mater is a membrane that envelops the arachnoid mater. It surrounds and supports...

more superficial (closer to the surface) and much thicker dura mater and the deeper pia mater, from which it is separated by the subarachnoid space. The...

are the dura mater, the arachnoid mater, and the pia mater. Cerebrospinal fluid is located in the subarachnoid space between the arachnoid mater and the...

spinal cord. Pia mater is medieval Latin meaning "tender mother". The other two meningeal membranes are the dura mater and the arachnoid mater. Both the pia...

traumatic brain injury—gathers between the inner layer of the dura mater and the arachnoid mater of the meninges surrounding the brain. It usually results...

sinuses (channels) found between the endosteal and meningeal layers of dura mater in the brain. They receive blood from the cerebral veins, and cerebrospinal...

bleeding occurs between the tough outer membrane covering the brain (dura mater) and the skull. When this condition occurs in the spinal canal, it is...

terminale is formed by spinal pia mater within a dilated dural sac, while the lower portion is formed by both pia and dura mater (with the outer dural layer...

infratemporal fossa, it runs through the foramen spinosum to supply the dura mater (the outer meningeal layer) and the calvaria. The middle meningeal artery...

periosteal layer of the dura mater adheres to the inner surface of the skull bones while the meningeal layer lays over the arachnoid mater. Between them is the...

The thecal sac or dural sac is the membranous sheath (theca) or tube of dura mater that surrounds the spinal cord and the cauda equina. The thecal sac contains...

potential space that can be opened by the separation of the arachnoid mater from the dura mater as the result of trauma, pathologic process, or the absence of...

brain and spinal cord leaks out of one or more holes or tears in the dura mater. A CSF leak is classed as either spontaneous (primary), having no known...

(also known as the cerebral falx) is a large, crescent-shaped fold of dura mater that descends vertically into the longitudinal fissure to separate the...

located within the trigeminal cave (Meckel's cave), a cavity formed by dura mater. The trigeminal ganglion contains cell bodies of the pseudo-unipolar sensory...

on a person with CJD. In the 1980s it was discovered that Lyodura, a dura mater transplant product, was shown to transmit CJD from the donor to the recipient...

trigeminale) is a pouch of dura mater containing cerebrospinal fluid. The trigeminal cave is formed by the two layers of dura mater (endosteal and meningeal)...

are located outside the dura mater lining and are most commonly metastatic. Intradural tumors are located inside the dura mater lining and are further...

holes in the dura mater of the spinal cord, which occurred as a complication of a lumbar puncture or epidural placement. The punctured dura causes cerebrospinal...

bleeding below the dura mater which may develop slowly Traumatic extradural, or epidural hematoma, bleeding between the dura mater and the skull Traumatic...

that extends between the suboccipital muscles and the cervical spinal dura mater, the outer membrane that envelops the spinal cord. It provides a physical...

Epidural administration (from Ancient Greek ἐπί, "upon" + dura mater) is a method of medication administration in which a medicine is injected into the...

and dura mater Subdural hematoma – between the dura mater and arachnoid mater Subarachnoid hematoma – between the arachnoid mater and pia mater (the...

meninges is the dura mater (Latin for hard) and adheres to inner surface of the skull and vertebrae. The arachnoid is under or "deep" to the dura and is a thin...

that surround the canal. The dura mater is the outermost layer, and it forms a tough protective coating. Between the dura mater and the surrounding bone of...

membranes and is filled with cerebrospinal fluid. The outermost membrane, the dura mater, is a thick durable membrane, which is attached to both the arachnoid...

The diaphragma sellae or sellar diaphragm is a small, circular sheet of dura mater forming an (incomplete) roof over the sella turcica and covering the pituitary...

contrast to a meningocele, in which the fluid is surrounded and confined by dura mater, in a pseudomeningocele, the fluid has no surrounding membrane, but is...

artificial lake Dura mater, the outermost of the three ('hard', dura in Latin) layers of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord Dura (moth), a genus...

infectious material located in the epidural space superficial to the dura mater which surrounds the central nervous system. Due to its location adjacent...