The arachnoid is a thin membrane which lies beneath the dura mater. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The inflammation results in thickening of the middle membrane, called the arachnoid, causing it to adhere to structures near it. From Wordnik.com. [Glaxo, Myodil and The UK Regulator] Reference
The Spinal Part (arachnoidea spinalis) of the arachnoid is a thin, delicate, tubular membrane loosely investing the medulla spinalis. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 4g. The Meninges of the Brain and Medulla Spinalis] Reference
It's cognitive dissonance in an arachnoid package. From Wordnik.com. [Look into my eyes.] Reference
Except for this arachnoid real estate transaction. From Wordnik.com. [It's a Spider-Eat-Spider World] Reference
I'm just sorry I had to drag you into my arachnoid mess!. From Wordnik.com. [Further Proof I'm Not Just Crazy] Reference
Then faint, breathy puffs came from that arachnoid throat. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Gate]
Other rides hid, like strange arachnoid forms, behind them. From Wordnik.com. [Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 11.1 of 31.1] Reference
About 2 percent of the folks in this country have arachnoid cysts. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2009] Reference
They're arachnoid creatures that exist as fused male-female units. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
The sub-arachnoid arteries are in the skull, but not in the brain, as such. From Wordnik.com. [Jealousy] Reference
“I was watching the news and I have proof — she has an arachnoid cyst!”. From Wordnik.com. [New Thread for Terri Schiavo Discussion] Reference
An electronic helmet, swiveled out above the pillow, crouched like an ugly arachnoid. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
The brain and spinal cord are covered with membranes called dura mater, arachnoid and pia mater. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Tumor - Diagnosis and Treatment] Reference
There may be effusion under arachnoid, into ventricles, at base of the brain, and around the cord. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
The technical term for what I watched on the CAT scan is “hemorrhage of a sub-arachnoid aneurism.”. From Wordnik.com. [Jealousy] Reference
The fluid ran out freely, and the space was evidently in free communication with the general arachnoid cavity. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Sub-arachnoid haemorrhage or Campbell shook his head and frowned, as if impatient with this futile and misguided optimism. From Wordnik.com. [Country of the Blind]
Wen dey getz in mai howze, Ai catches dem wif glass and slides paper under glass and take friendly arachnoid outdoors to be FREE. From Wordnik.com. [my new bluetooth…. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
I for one welcome our new flesh-eating arachnoid overlords. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
This bleeding often separates the dura and the arachnoid layers. From Wordnik.com. [courierpress.com Stories] Reference
Scalpel will be mine and he will be made into Tarantulus's arachnoid. From Wordnik.com. [TFormers.com] Reference
Let them form arachnoid associations, spinsters and spiders would be a good motto. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
Parts of the flower more or less pubescent, arachnoid-pubescent within, near the base. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
A post mortem revealed Mr Turnbull suffered a traumatic basal sub-arachnoid haemorrhage. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Neither is the arachnoid often affected with acute inflammation, except as a secondary result. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Once the vault's elevator is activated, the facility's arachnoid guardian springs to action. From Wordnik.com. [Computer And Video Games] Reference
Doctors diagnosed a massive sub-arachnoid haemorrhage, or bleeding at the base of his brain stem. From Wordnik.com. [Tonight]
= Universal veil = arachnoid, distinct from the cuticle of the pileus, gills powdery from the spores. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
Thus, one layer of the arachnoid envelopes the brain and spinal cord, and the other lines the dura mater. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
No one is believed to have been harmed during the recent unusually high presence of the arachnoid in Bowen. From Wordnik.com. [Slashdot] Reference
The needle usually encounters some resistance as it pierces the interspinous ligament, and then enters the sub-arachnoid space. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
If the dura mater is torn, and the blood passes into the sub-arachnoid space, it may spread over the whole surface of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
Spinal arachnoid cysts are relatively uncommon lesions that may be intradural or extradural with the intradural variety being rare. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
Near the groove are several depressions, best marked in the skulls of old persons, for the arachnoid granulations (Pacchionian bodies). From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 5a. 2. The Parietal Bone] Reference
In milder cases effusion may take place in the arachnoid spaces and ventricles of the brain, followed by paralysis and other complications. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
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