Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Situated or occurring beneath the arachnoid membrane, or between the arachnoid and the pia mater.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated beneath the arachnoid—that is, between that membrane and the pia mater: as, the subarachnoid space.
- Subdural.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Situated under the arachnoid membrane.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine Located or occurring below the
arachnoid mater , often specifically between the arachnoid membrane and thepia mater
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sharon Stone, as you know, Larry, had a very difficult situation in September of 2001, where she had a splitting headache and something called a subarachnoid hemorrhage, and she almost died.
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Sharon Stone, as you know, Larry, had a very difficult situation in September of 2001, where she had a splitting headache and something called a subarachnoid hemorrhage, and she almost died.
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When a brain aneurysm ruptures, the result is called a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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Michaels, 47, suffered a type of stroke called a subarachnoid haemorrhage, which causes bleeding in the fluid-filled spaces around the base of the brain.
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Poison frontman suffers from bleeding in his caused by a type of stroke called a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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Brain aneurysms are often discovered when they rupture, causing bleeding into the brain or the space closely surrounding the brain called the subarachnoid space, causing a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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Michaels, 47, suffered a type of stroke called a subarachnoid haemorrhage, which causes bleeding in the fluid-filled spaces around the base of the brain.
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Brain aneurysms are often discovered when they rupture, causing bleeding into the brain or the space closely surrounding the brain called the subarachnoid space, causing a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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Michaels, 47, is conscious and in critical but stable condition at the unidentified hospital after suffering a type of stroke called a subarachnoid hemorrhage, which causes bleeding in the fluid-filled spaces around the base of the brain.
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Neurology, found that these smokers were more than six times more likely to suffer a particular type of stroke, called a subarachnoid hemorrhage, than were those who did not smoke and did not have a family history of stroke or brain aneurysm.
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