MATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mater mean? 

• MATER (noun)
  The noun MATER has 1 sense:

1. an informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously

  Familiarity information: MATER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mater" is a kind of...):

female parent; mother (a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother))

 Context examples 

The space between a blood vessel and the pia mater.

(Perivascular Space, NCI Thesaurus)

It is separated from the pia mater by the subarachnoid space.

(Arachnoid Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)

A neoplasm that occurs within the spinal canal in the space between the spinal cord and the dura mater.

(Intradural Extramedullary Spinal Canal Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

One group of these macrophages is found along blood vessels in the dura mater (the outermost layer of the meninges) and helps catch pathogens from the blood before they reach brain tissue.

(Meningitis changes immune cell makeup in the mouse brain lining, National Institutes of Health)

The two innermost layers of tissue that cover the brain and spinal cord, the arachnoid mater and the pia mater.

(Leptomeninges, NCI Thesaurus)

These two layers form the dura mater.

(Meningeal Layer of the Dura Mater, NCI Thesaurus)

A generally slow growing tumor attached to the dura mater.

(Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

Administration upon or over the dura mater.

(Epidural Route of Administration, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)

Administration to the outside of the dura mater of the spinal cord.

(Peridural Route of Administration, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)

Space between the dura mater and the walls of the vertebral canal.

(Epidural Spinal Canal Space, NCI Thesaurus)