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| pi·a ma·ter [ p ə máytər, pə máatər ] |
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membrane around brain and spine: the innermost and most delicate of the three membranes meninges that surround the brain and the spinal cord
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| [14th century. < Latin, "tender mother," translated < Arabic al-'umm ar-rakika] |
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