dura-máter

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dura-máter

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dūra māter [cerebrī] (literally “hard mother ”), loan translation of Arabic أُمّ الدِّمَاغ الصَفِيقَة (ʔumm ad-dimāḡ aṣ-ṣafīqa, literally “thick mother of the brain, matrix of the brain”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌdu.ɾɐˈma.teʁ/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˌdu.ɾɐˈma.teɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌdu.ɾɐˈma.teʁ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌdu.ɾaˈma.teɻ/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌdu.ɾɐˈma.tɛɾ/

Noun

dura-máter f (plural dura-máteres)

(anatomy) dura mater (outermost layer of the meninges)

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