meninges
- n a membrane (one of 3) that envelops the brain and spinal cord
- The slightest inaccuracy on the part of the surgeon will let his scalpel pierce the meninges and brain, but the parents of the 16-month-old child that lay on the operating table .
- Back went the excised meninges.
- In a soft, kindly voice and with simple terms he explains that in paresis the spirochetes attack first the meninges (covering of the brain).