extradural

/ ˌɛkstrəˈdjʊərəl /

adjective

1. another word for epidural

Example Sentences

This membrane consists of a delicate connective tissue, in which the arteries of the brain and spinal cord ramify and subdivide into small branches before they penetrate the nervous substance, and in which the veins conveying the blood from the nerve centres lie before they open into the blood sinuses of the cranial dura mater and the extradural venus plexus of the spinal canal.

From Project Gutenberg