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  2. Dura mater - Wikipedia

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    The dura mater has two layers, an outer periosteal layer closely adhered to the neurocranium, and an inner meningeal layer known as the dural border cell layer. [1] The two dural layers are for the most part fused together forming a thick fibrous tissue membrane that covers the brain and the vertebrae of the spinal column. [2] But the layers ...

  3. Calvaria (skull) - Wikipedia

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    The outer layer of the skull has been removed and shows the diploic veins and inner layer. Most bones of the calvaria consist of internal and external tables or layers of compact bone, separated by diploë. The diploë is cancellous bone containing red bone marrow during life, through which run canals formed by diploic veins. The diploë in a ...

  4. Thecal sac - Wikipedia

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    The thecal sac or dural sac is the membranous sheath (theca) or tube of dura mater that surrounds the spinal cord and the cauda equina. The thecal sac contains the cerebrospinal fluid which provides nutrients and buoyancy to the spinal cord. [ 1 ]

  5. Meninges - Wikipedia

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    The dura mater (Latin: tough mother), [6] [a] is a thick, durable membrane, closest to the skull and vertebrae.The dura mater, the outermost part, is a loosely arranged, fibroelastic layer of cells, characterized by multiple interdigitating cell processes, no extracellular collagen, [citation needed] and significant extracellular spaces.

  6. Dural tear - Wikipedia

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    This technique is preferred because the vessels are too small to be picked up by an artery forceps. Large vessels, if present, can be under-run with suture. When the dural tear is associated with a dural sinus hemorrhage, a graft of pericranium is used for a small tear and a muscle graft from temporalis is used for a large tear. The muscle ...

  7. Spinal cord - Wikipedia

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    The spinal cord (and brain) are protected by three layers of tissue or membranes called meninges, that surround the canal. The dura mater is the outermost layer, and it forms a tough protective coating. Between the dura mater and the surrounding bone of the vertebrae is a space called the epidural space.

  8. Epidural space - Wikipedia

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    The meningeal layer lays over the spinal arachnoid mater. [2] Between the vertebrae and the dural sheath is the spinal epidural space . Unlike the cranial epidural space, the spinal epidural space contains adipose tissue , the internal vertebral venous plexuses and the spinal nerve roots. [ 1 ]

  9. Falx cerebri - Wikipedia

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    The falx cerebri is a strong, crescent-shaped sheet of dura mater lying in the sagittal plane between the two cerebral hemispheres. [3] It is one of four dural partitions of the brain along with the falx cerebelli, tentorium cerebelli, and diaphragma sellae; it is formed through invagination of the dura mater into the longitudinal fissure between the cerebral hemispheres.