Definition of "meninx" [meninx]

• A membrane, especially one of the three membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord in vertebrates. (noun)

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• "Each vein of the other pair stretches from the region of the ear to the brain, and branches off in a number of fine and delicate veins into the so-called meninx, or membrane, which surrounds the brain."
• "“Dimágh,” a Persianism when used for the head: the word properly means brain or meninx."
• "But if you perceive that fever is coming on, and that any of these symptoms accompany it, you must not put off, but having sawed the bone to the membrane (meninx), or scraped it with a raspatory (and it is then easily sawed or scraped), you must apply the other treatment as may seem proper, attention being paid to circumstances."