Word: arachnoid
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Duplicates of animals on Moche pottery and murals, anthropomorphized spiders, crabs and owls appeared on tomb artifacts. They embody real people whose ceremonial roles have those creatures' characteristics. In Moche drawings, for instance, a strikingly arachnoid figure, dubbed the Decapitator by archaeologists, clasps a crescent-bladed knife in one hand and a severed head in the other. The supreme example of Moche craftsmanship was found atop the royal corpse in Tomb 3, oldest of the chambers: on each of 10 gold beads is a spider with a human face etched on its back. "The Moche communicated very effectively through their...
...American way of life, whatever that is. Though he has no regular hour, Spider-Man also creeps on to CBS from time to time. He is really Peter Parker (Nicholas Hammond), a postgraduate science student who was bitten by a radioactive spider and ever since has had arachnoid superpowers, which he uses against two-legged evildoers...
...ropes in the twelfth. With a trip-hammer succession of alternating right uppercuts and left hooks, Griffith slammed Paret's head from side to side. Different parts of Paret's brain were hit by the overlying skull with enough force to break blood vessels between the middle (arachnoid) and outermost (dura mater) layers of the brain's covering (meninges). The resulting accumulations of blood and clots (called hematomas), together with multiple bruises and severe swelling, exerted intolerable pressure on several parts of Paret's brain and cut the elaborate circuitry of the nervous system...
During the War surgeons noticed that after head injuries many soldiers developed epilepsy. Dr. Ney and associates, first with the French Red Cross, later the American Expeditionary Forces, observed particularly that where the injury occurred the cortex and three soft coverings of the brain (pia mater, arachnoid membrane, dura mater) adhered to the skull. If during an operation the surgeon pulled at the attached soft parts, the patient on the operating table went into epileptic convulsions. The Ney group judged that the convulsions resulted from the incidental stretching of the cerebral cortex...
...followed that idea through, found that a growth in the coverings of the brain is frequently associated with epilepsy. Small whitish bodies called Pacchionian granulations grow out of the arachnoid (middle) membrane. Dr. Ney's belief is that man's upright posture conditions the growth of Pacchionian granulations. The growths frequently erode, in one direction through the dura mater and into the skull, in the other direction through the pia mater to the brain itself. Their final effect often is to peg the brain to the skull...