pia mater

English

Etymology

Medieval Latin pia māter (literally “tender mother”).

Noun

pia mater (plural pia maters)

1. (anatomy) The innermost of the meninges, the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord.
   • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 24 April 2013, page 200:

     Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.

Translations

innermost of the meninges

• Arabic: الأم الحنون (al-umm al-ḥanūn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軟腦膜／软脑膜 (ruǎnnǎomó)

• Dutch: Zacht hersenvlies, Pia mater
• Finnish: pehmeäkalvo
• French: pie-mère (fr) f
• German: Pia mater f
• Greek: χοριοειδής μήνιγξ f (chorioeidís míninx)
• Italian: pia madre f
• Polish: opona miękka f
• Portuguese: pia-máter (pt) f
• Spanish: piamadre (es) f
• Swedish: mjuka hjärnhinnan c
• Vietnamese: màng mềm

Anagrams

• pimarate