| 1. | The other two meningeal layers are the arachnoid mater and the pia mater.
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| 2. | The vessel is placed in the pia mater along the anterior median fissure.
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| 3. | The function of the pia mater is more simply visualized through these ordinary occurrences.
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| 4. | The cranial pia mater covers the surface of the brain.
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| 5. | The pia mater is closely attached to the spinal cord.
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| 6. | The space between the arachnoid and the underlying pia mater is called the subarachnoid space.
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| 7. | There is a subpial space underneath the pia mater that separates it from the glia limitans.
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| 8. | The pia mater is the innermost protective layer.
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| 9. | "Meningitis is a disease which causes inflammation of one or more of the three arachnoid and the pia mater.
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| 10. | The pia mater continues as an extension called the filum terminale, which anchors the spinal cord to the coccyx.
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