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Mother.
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A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.
Examples of mater in a Sentence
I think he had not realized his proximity to his old alma mater.
This new cantata, Stabat Mater, is based on an idea by Paul Davis.
The compositions of Haydn include 104 symphonies, 16 overtures, 76 quartets, 68 trios, 54 sonatas, 31 concertos and a large number of divertimentos, cassations and other instrumental pieces; 24 operas and dramatic pieces, 16 Masses, a Stabat Mater, interludes for the " Seven Words," 3 oratorios, 2 Te Deums and many smaller pieces for the church, over 40 songs, over 50 canons and arrangements of Scottish and Welsh national melodies.
His refusal to subscribe unconditionally to the rigid formula of belief adopted by the theologians of Tubingen permanently closed against him the gates of his alma mater.
He wrote excellent English versions of the Dies irae and the Stabat mater.
These membranes are called the meninges, the outermost membrane is called the dura mater, then the arachnoid and then the pia mater.
However, one of the products that was discussed was composed of human dura mater.
To avoid fraudulent he said quot in front of his alma mater.
Iatrogenic CJD is very rare and most cases have resulted from hGH treatment or human dura mater grafts.
Dura mater grafts have largely been replaced by synthetic mater grafts have largely been replaced by synthetic materials or by grafts of fibrous tissue derived from the individual undergoing the graft.
In the image below, the dark ruler is showing the dura mater still adhering to the inside of the cranial cavity.
The outside is a tough, fibrous covering called the dura mater.
I will buy nine sparrows for a penny, and his pia mater is not worth the ninth part of a sparrow.
Alma redemptoris mater is an anonymous setting by an unknown composer, here transcribed and transposed for soprano, alto and tenor solo voices.
A multi-screen cinema, an Asian cinema and of course the historic Harrow School, alma mater of such notables as Sir Winston Churchill.
Hunt, in Fifth Avenue, opposite the Lenox library, New York, and a large "Alma Mater," near the approach to Columbia University, New York.
These cards, designed to help alumni donate to their alma mater, often give a percentage of money charged on the card back to schools, and some even offer a rewards card for cash back toward purchases, travel or gift certificates.
Some of the alma mater card programs donate to the college or university every time the cardholder makes a purchase.
Real estate experts know that having a great mater bathrooms can really help sell a home.
Mater Dei in California has an enviable record.
Mater Dei is currently only one of two high schools to produce two Heisman trophy winners.
He also does frequent voiceovers including the voice of Mater in the Pixar film Cars.
Music aficionados can enjoy the latest broadcasts from their alma mater no matter where they live through Internet radio.
The school also is the alma mater of House of Representatives member Steve Crisafulli and Saturday Night Live star Darrell Hammond.
Subarachnoid hemorrhage-A collection of blood in the subarachnoid space, the space between the arachnoid and pia mater membranes that surround the brain.
Subdural hematoma-A localized accumulation of blood, sometimes mixed with spinal fluid, in the space between the middle (arachnoid) and outer (dura mater) membranes covering the brain.
The middle layer is the arachnoid mater, and the layer closest to the brain tissue is the pia mater.
Meninges-The three-layer membranous covering of the brain and spinal cord, composed of the dura mater, arachnoid, and pia mater.
The innermost layer is called the pia mater, the middle layer is the arachnoid, and the dura mater is the tougher outer layer.
Kenya has also founded the Kenya Moore Foundation that serves to award educational scholarships to girls who attend her high school alma mater, Cass Technical High School.
No mater what your personal taste might be, you're bound to find a tree that suits your style.
The Kimora Lee Simmons Scholarship is available to female students at Simmons' alma mater, Lutheran North High School, in St. Louis.
As a mater of fact, she was starting to think that her idea of the right man was nothing more than a pipe dream.
And they accept you no mater what.
Still, no mater how early she got up, the stove was always burning and Alex preceded her to the dairy.
Then it didn't mater much.
As a mater of fact, he can't give me the thing I want most.
They'll think what they want no mater what she does.
No, as a mater of fact, he already knew where to find you.
As regards the inner ear, the endolymphatic duct ends in a closed saccus, imbedded in the dura mater of the cranial cavity.
The evidence supplied by this and other Cretan sites shows that the principal Minoan divinity was a kind of Magna Mater, a Great Mother or nature goddess, with whom was associated a male satellite.
The rhetorical schools experienced a brilliant revival under Constantine and his successors, when Athens became the alma mater of many notable men, including Julian, Libanius, Basil and Gregory of Nazianzus, and in her professors owned the last representatives of a humane and moralized paganism.
Wagner's retouching of Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulide and his edition of Palestrina's Stabat Mater demand mention as important services to music, by no means to be classified (as in some catalogues) with the hack-work with which he kept off starvation in Paris.
After 34 6 B.C. we hear of it only in connexion with the temple of Mater Matuta.
One mile W.N.W., on the hill above Le Ferriere, remains of an archaic temple, ascribed to Mater Matuta, were discovered by excavation in 1896.
In the train of the Magna Mater came the secret Oriental cult of Bacchus, which grew to such proportions in deities .
To this period belong five Masses, a dozen operas, over thirty clavier-sonatas, over forty quartets, over a hundred orchestral symphonies and overtures, a Stabat Mater, a set of interludes for the service of the Seven Words, an Oratorio Tobias written for the Tonkiinstler-Societe t of Vienna, and a vast number of concertos, divertimenti and smaller pieces, among which were no less than 175 for Prince Nicholas' favourite instrument, the baryton.
The provincial schools, dependent upon so decrepit an alma mater, were suffered to decay.
Among hospitals those of special general interest are the Steevens, the oldest in the city, founded under the will of Dr Richard Steevens in 1720; the Mater Misericordiae (1861),which includes a laboratory and museum, and is managed by the Sisters of Mercy, but relieves sufferers independently of their creed; the Rotunda lying-in hospital (1756); the Royal hospital for incurables, Donnybrook, which was founded in 1744 by the Dublin Musical Society; and the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear hospital, Adelaide Road, which amalgamated (1904) two similar institutions.
Energetic as an administrator, churches and schools rose throughout his diocese; and the excellent Mater Misericordiae Hospital and the seminary at Clonlife are lasting memorials of his zeal.