pia mater

1. 1.

   the highly vascular innermost of the 3 meninges

   Broadermeninx

   Part ofleptomeninges

Questions about pia mater

What does pia mater mean?

pia mater means "the highly vascular innermost of the 3 meninges".

Is pia mater a common word?

pia mater is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.