JMdictDB - Japanese Dictionary Database

Entries

Search | Advanced Search | New Entry | Submissions | Help
Login for registered editors
Username:
Password:
jmdict 1952950 Active (id: 2285288)
髄膜
ずいまく
1. [n] {anatomy}
▶ meninges
▶ meninx
▶ membranous coverings
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 2125590 硬膜 1. dura; dura mater
  ⇒ see: 1735890 くも膜 1. arachnoid mater; arachnoid membrane
  ⇒ see: 2128990 軟膜 1. pia mater (membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord)



History:
3. A 2023-12-07 03:08:49  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
GG5: meninges 《sing. meninx》; membranous coverings.
  Comments:
Let's have them all.
  Diff:
@@ -16,0 +17,2 @@
+<gloss>meninx</gloss>
+<gloss>membranous coverings</gloss>
2. A* 2023-12-06 18:45:57  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Daijirin, koj, obunsha, etc. describe 髄膜 as a composition of three layers: 硬膜 (dura), 蜘蛛膜 (arachnoid), and 軟膜 (pia).

For "menix" to work as a gloss, I think we'd need to see some evidence that 髄膜 can be used to refer to any one of those three layers in isolation.

GG5 notes that the singular form of "meninges" is "meninx," but I think it might just be describing how the word works in English rather than claiming that 髄膜 can function in the same way.

〈髄/ずい/ズイ〉〈膜/まく/マク〉

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬─────────┬───────╮
│ 髄膜   │ 109,890 │ 99.0% │
│ ずい膜  │      51 │  0.0% │
│ ずいまく │   1,036 │  0.9% │
╰─ーーーー─┴─────────┴───────╯
  Comments:
Maybe some cross-references would be helpful here.
  Diff:
@@ -11,0 +12,5 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="2125590">硬膜</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1735890">くも膜</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1735890">くも膜</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2128990">軟膜</xref>
+<field>&anat;</field>
@@ -13 +17,0 @@
-<gloss>meninx</gloss>
1. A* 2023-12-06 17:36:39 
  Comments:
Meninges is actually plural; the singular is meninx. I'm a bit uncertain as to if it can be included because I don't know if this term is singular or plural.
  Diff:
@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<gloss>meninx</gloss>

View entry in alternate formats: jel | edict | jmdict xml | jmnedict xml | jmdictdb xml