Definitions for meninges

meninges me·nin·ges

Spelling: [mi-nin-jeez]
IPA: /mɪˈnɪn dʒiz/

Meninges is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in meninges (eegimnns).

Definitions for meninges

plural noun

  1. the three membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. Compare arachnoid (def 6), dura mater, pia mater.

Origin of meninges

1610-20; New Latin Greek mḗninges, plural of mêninx membrane

Examples for meninges

meninges, the name of three membranes that invest the brain and spinal cord, and the inflammation of which is called meningitis.

That the wound has penetrated the meninges is shown by the escape of cerebro-spinal fluid.

The seat of the disease is in the meninges or membranes around the brain and spinal cord.

Inflammation of the intestinal mucosa and congestion of the meninges were the only changes found on autopsy.

Adhesions form rapidly, binding together the surface of the brain, meninges, and the overlying bone.

To retain the meninges, and to support the Mass of the Brain, which is cover'd by them.

The pressure and heat on the top of my head appears like an inflammation of the meninges.

There was also general encephalic engorgement, and in one experiment intense congestion of the meninges was observed.

If this is so, it appears from what will follow as though the meninges must be the "stock" rather than the diaphragm.

It consists in a collection of fluid under the meninges, but outside the brain proper.

Word Value for meninges
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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