Crossword-Solution: MENINX
We have 5 clues for the answer “MENINX”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Any one of three protective membranes around the central nervous system (their inflammation is a familiar problem) | 1 answer |
| DJERBA island (ancient) | 1 answer |
| JERBA island (ancient) | 1 answer |
| one of three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord | 1 answer |
| ISLAND off Tunisia | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MENINX (5)
See MANSION.] MENINX, m[=e]'ningks, _n._ one of three membranes that envelop the brain:--_pl._ MENINIGES (men-in'j[=e]z).--_adj._ MENING'EAL.--_ns._ MENINGITIS (-j[=i]'-), inflammation of the membranes investing the brain or spinal cord; MENING'OCELE, hernia of those membranes.
The most famous among them is Meninx[3463], twenty-five miles in length and twenty-two in breadth: by Eratosthenes it is called Lotophagitis.
This island has two towns, Meninx on the side which faces Africa, and Troas on the other; it is situate off the promontory which lies on the right-hand side of the Lesser Syrtis, at a distance of a mile and a half.
For the fluid is formed either between the pericranium and the skin, or between the pericranium and the bone, or between the bone and the meninx.
When the fluid is seated between the meninx and the bone, there will still be a swelling, but not of so yielding a nature, nor so easily felt, only it yields to the application of strong pressure; for the bones of infants, being recently formed, are of a more yielding nature; and this is more especially the case when, owing to enlargement of the sutures, the fluid escapes outwards.