Associations to the word «Dura»

Wiktionary

DURA, noun. (anatomy) The dura mater, the outer covering of the brain and spinal cord.
DURA MATER, noun. (anatomy) The tough and inflexible outermost of the three layers of the meninges

Dictionary definition

DURA, noun. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne