Dura

Definition: Dura

Dura

Noun

1. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Dura" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "same as Dor".

Date "dura" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Bible

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DURA

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Synonym: Dura

Duty

Phrase: dura lex sed lex; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori; honos habet onus; leve fit quod bene fertur onus; loyaute m'oblige; " simple duty bath no place for fear "; " stern daughter of the voice of God "; " there is a higher law than the Constitution ".

Crosswords: Dura

Esperanto (hard), French (lasted), Italian (hard), Latin (bear, become hard, continue, cruel, durable, endure, hard, harden, harsh, inflexible, last, make hard, remain, rough, stern, unfeeling, vigorous), Papiamen (continue, endure, keep on, last), Portuguese (lasts), Portuguese Brazilian (lasts), Romanian (build, continue, hold, hold out, keep, last, make, stand).

L' Uomo dalla pelle dura (1971)

Água Mola em Pedra Dura... (1932)

L' Uomo dalla testa dura (1908)

Come è dura l'avventura (1988)

La Via dura (1987)

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References

• Dura Automotive Systems: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Administración de la Compensación (Pasta Dura) (reference)

• Dura (New American Poetry Series, No 28) (reference)

• Dura Mater, a novel of the Vietnam War (reference)

• LA Santa Biblia Antiguo Y Nuevo Testamento Con Referencias: Azul Tapa Dura (reference)

• Lideres Para El Siglo Xxi Pasta Dura (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Un Uomo Dalla Pelle Dura (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Salsa Dura (reference)

• Salsa Dura de Colombia (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Zojirushi 1-Quart Stainless Steel Dura Bottle Vacuum Bottle (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Head opened at autopsy revealing purulent inflammation of leptomeninges beneath reflected dura. Credit: CDC.

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Health

In one treatment approach currently being evaluated, neurosurgeons perform a decompressive procedure where the dura mater, a tough membrane covering the cerebellum and spinal cord, is enlarged with a graft. (references)

Spinal cord contusions result in a cavity or hole in the center of the spinal cord. Myelinated axons typically survive around the perimeter of the spinal cord, and the dura may even remain unbroken by the injury. (references)

Regional blocks affect a larger area of the body. Nerve blocks may also take the form of what is commonly called an epidural, in which a drug is administered into the space between the spine's protective covering (the dura) and the spinal column. (references)

Minorities

Nepal

Human rights groups report that the languages of the small Kusunda, Dura, and Meche communities are nearly extinct. (references)

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Expressions using "dura": dura lex sed lex ♦ Dura mater ♦ pietra dura ♦ sinuses of the dura mater ♦ Spongia dura. Additional references.

Danish

dura mater (dura mater). (various references)

Dutch

dura mater (dura mater). (various references)

French

dure-mère spinale (spinal dura mater), dure-mère crânienne (dura mater of brain), dure-mère (dura mater), sinus de la dure-mère (sinuses of the dura mater), plastie dure-mérienne par lambeaux aponévrotiques (fascial dura grafting), ligament coccygien de la moelle (filum of spinal dura mater), anévrisme dural (aneurysm of dura). (various references)

German

Dura mater (dura mater). (various references)

Greek 

σκληρά μήνιγξ του νωτιαίου μυελού (spinal dura mater), σκληρά μήνιγξ του εγκεφάλου (dura mater of brain), σκληρά μήνιγξ (dura mater). (various references)

Italian

dura madre (dura mater). (various references)

Manx

moir chreoi (dura mater). (various references)

Pig Latin

uraday

Portuguese

dura-máter espinal (spinal dura mater), dura-máter do crânio (dura mater of brain), dura-máter (dura mater), dura-máter (dura mater), seios da dura-mater (sinuses of the dura mater). (various references)

Spanish

duramadre espinal (spinal dura mater), duramadre encefálica (dura mater of brain), duramadre (dura mater), duramáter (dura mater), aneurisma dural (aneurysm of dura). (various references)

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Derivations

Words beginning with "dura": durabilities, durability, durable, durableness, durablenesses, durables, durably, dural, duralumin, duralumins, duramen, duramens, durance, durances, duras, duration, durations, durative, duratives. (additional references)

Words ending with "dura": pandura. (additional references)

Words containing "dura": endurable, endurably, endurance, endurances, epidural, indurate, indurated, indurates, indurating, induration, indurations, indurative, nondurable, nondurables, obduracies, obduracy, obdurate, obdurately, obdurateness, obduratenesses, panduras, perdurabilities, perdurability, perdurable, perdurably, procedural, procedurally, procedurals, subdural, unendurable, unendurableness, unendurablenesses, unendurably. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rad, urd.

-2 letters: ad, ar.

+1 letter: doura, dural, duras, durra, fraud, guard, mudra, purda.

+2 letters: absurd, adjure, ardour, argued, around, aulder, datura, dauber, daubry, dhurna, dourah, douras, durbar, durian, durras, frauds, gradus, guards, lauder, lurdan, maduro, maraud, mudras, purdah, purdas, radium, radius, radula, remuda, sudary, tundra, undraw, unread, updart, upward, uredia.

+3 letters: abjured, absurds, accrued, adducer, adjourn, adjured, adjurer, adjures, adjuror, aground, allured, ardours, arduous, aroused, assured, asunder, auditor, augured, aurated, bahadur, bustard, buzzard, candour, chuddar, crusade, crusado, cruzado, cudbear, curated, custard, danseur, dareful, dasyure, daturas, daturic, daubers, daubery, daubier, daunder, daunter, defraud, desugar, dhourra, dhurnas, diurnal, dourahs, draught, dullard, durable, durably, duramen, durance, durbars, durians, durmast, dustrag, dysuria, eardrum, feudary, foulard, gaudery, gaudier, gradual, guarded, guarder, guisard, gurnard, iracund, lauders, launder, laundry, lurdane, lurdans, maduros, manured, marauds, matured, maunder, modular, mudlark, mustard, natured, nodular, outdare, outdrag, outdraw, outread, outward, pagurid, pandour, pandura, poulard, purdahs, quadrat, quadric, querida, radiums, radulae, radular, radulas, readout, remudas, residua, rondeau, rotunda, roulade, ruderal, rumbaed, sandbur, sardius, squared, subadar, subarid, sudaria, sudoral, sugared, sunward, traduce, tundras, unaired, unarmed, unbraid, undrape, undrawn, undraws, undular, unguard, unheard, unitard, unraked, unrated, unrazed, unready, untread, upbraid, updarts, updater, updraft, upgrade, uphoard, uprated, upwards, uranide, uredial.