dura mater

1. 1.

   the outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges

   Synonymsdura

   Broadermeninx

Questions about dura mater

What does dura mater mean?

dura mater means "the outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges".

What is another word for dura mater?

Close synonyms include dura. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dura mater a common word?

dura mater is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.