Meaning of ARACHNOID
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- [n] air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
- [n] the middle of the 3 meninges
- [adj] (zoology) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida
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| | Synonyms: | | arachnid, arachnidian, arachnoid membrane, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery |
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| | See Also: | | acarine, Arachnida, arthropod, class Arachnida, daddy longlegs, false scorpion, harvestman, leptomeninges, meninges, meninx, Phalangium opilio, pseudoscorpion, scorpion, spider, whip scorpion, whipscorpion | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\A*rach"noid\, a. [Gr. ? like a cobweb; ? spider,
spider's web + ? form.]
1. Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.
2. (Anat.) Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and
spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.
3. (Bot.) Covered with, or composed of, soft, loose hairs or
fibers, so as to resemble a cobweb; cobwebby.
\A*rach"noid\, n.
1. (Anat.) The arachnoid membrane.
2. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Arachnoidea.
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- Like a cobweb; covered with or consisting of soft fibers or hairs so entangled as to give a cobwebby appearance.
- The three membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord; going from skull to the brain, the membranes are the dura mater (the toughest of the three, a.k.a the pachymennix), the arachnoid (so called because it resembles a web) and the pia mater (delicate and highly vascular).
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