arachnoid
pronunciation
How to pronounce arachnoid in British English:
UK [ə'ræknɔɪd]
How to pronounce arachnoid in American English:
US [ə'ræknɔɪd]
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- Noun:
- the middle of the 3 meninges
- air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
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- Adjective:
- relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida
Word Origin
- arachnoid (adj.)
- "cobweb-like," especially of the membrane around the brain and spinal cord, 1789, from Modern Latin arachnoides, from Greek arakhnoeides "cobweb-like," from arakhne "cobweb" (see arachnid) + -oeides (see -oid).
Example
- 1. Arachnoid adhesion acts as an important cause of glossopharyngeal neuralgia .
- 2. The arachnoid bleeds to have two time spontaneously .
- 3. Surgical treatment of symptomatic sacral canal arachnoid cyst .
- 4. Blood collected between his dura and arachnoid .
- 5. This sonogram shows an arachnoid cyst .