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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or affecting the meninges.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to the meninges.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Relating to the meninges.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to the meninges.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. relating to the meninges

Examples

  • “The researchers then turned their attention to case-control studies - comparisons of patients ( 'cases') against healthy volunteers ( 'controls') - to see whether genetic variants in the LTA4H region affected susceptibility to mycobacterial infection in humans, examining patients in Vietnam with a particularly dangerous form of TB known as meningeal TB, and patients in Nepal with leprosy.”

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  • “When compound, the wound must be disinfected; and intra-cranial complications, such as meningeal hæmorrhage, laceration of the brain, or infection, are to be treated on the lines already described.”

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

  • “A postmortem revealed, however, that it was meningeal tuberculosis, not drink, that had done for him.”

    The Wall Street Journal: That Ubu That He Did So Well

  • “Evidently somebody injected Percival L. Sphynxeye with an exotic meningeal virus, possibly a hybrid of Mars fossil RNA with Earth pathogens.”

    Fictionaut: Who Do You Say I Am

  • “KELLIE LIM, TRIPLE AMPUTEE: Well at the age of 8 I contracted meningeal toxemia which is the much feared bacterial meningitis.”

    CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2007

  • “As he grew older, Peter became practically blind, and “meningeal symptoms made it difficult for him to control the nerve reflexes of his head and neck, making him slobber and appear uncouth.””

    Castles of Steel

  • ““Just like the book, we have a perfect head,” Sherry proclaimed, immediately undertaking the search for the meningeal artery.”

    Simon & Schuster: Body of Knowledge

  • ““Recurrent branch of the recurrent meningeal nerve,” she said quietly.”

    Simon & Schuster: Body of Knowledge

  • “Rao, Gayatri rectal muscles recurrent meningeal nerve religion:”

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  • “The brain looked like a mass of gray worms under its delicate covering of meningeal membrane.”

    Simon & Schuster: Life Support

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