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... was the mode in which the hair was kept, while a boy or young man's parents were alive, parted into two tufts from the pia mater, and brought down as low as the eyebrows on either side of ...

— The Shih King • James Legge

... with a rabid hatred. In practice he could be as coarsely overbearing with his social inferiors as that scion of the nobility—existing of course somewhere—who bears the bell for feebleness of the pia mater; but that made him none the less a sound Radical. In thinking of the upper classes he always thought of Hubert Eldon, and that name was scarlet to him. Never trust the thoroughness of the man who is a revolutionist on abstract principles; personal ...

— Demos • George Gissing

... unto God; and therefore nature hath covered it with a skull of hard bone, and two skins or membranes, whereof the one is called dura mater, or meninx, the other pia mater. The dura mater is next to the skull, above the other, which includes and protects the brain. When this is taken away, the pia mater is to be seen, a thin membrane, the next and immediate cover of the brain, and not covering only, but entering into it. The brain itself is divided into two parts, the fore and hinder part; the fore part is much ...

— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior

... anastomosis between the vessels entering into the formation of the circulus arteriosus (circle of Willis) ensures an abundant supply of blood to the brain. The larger arteries run in the sub-arachnoid space and give off branches which ramify in the pia mater before entering the cerebral substance. Within the brain, each artery being more or less terminal, there is no free anastomosis between adjacent vessels, with the result that if any individual artery is obstructed the vitality of the area supplied by it is seriously ...

— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

... PIA MATER is a vascular membrane, composed of innumerable vessels, held together by cellular membrane. It invests the whole surface of the brain, and dips into its convolutions. The pia mater is the nutrient membrane of the brain, and receives its blood from the carotid ...

— A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) • Calvin Cutter