du·ral

[door-uhl, dyoor-uhl]
adjective
of or pertaining to the dura mater.

Origin:
1885–90; dur(a) + -al1

sub·du·ral, adjective
su·per·du·ral, adjective
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dural (ˈdjʊərəl) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
relating to or affecting the dura mater

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Dural is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
Macerated brain, muddy brown and the consistency of toothpaste, oozed from the dural rent marking the bullet's entry.
If an epidural sensor is used, it is inserted between the skull and dural tissue.
As the nerve enters the optic foramen its dural sheath becomes continuous with that lining the orbit and the optic foramen.
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