See Also: dura(dictionary)
Dura(health)
dura(medicine)
Dura-Europus(encyclopedia)
pietra dura(dictionary)
dura mater(dictionary)
Dura mater(health)
lamina dura(medicine)
dura mater(medicine)
dura mater spinalis(medicine)

mulligan (iou) and Dura (health)


mulligan (iou)



mulligan noun. N. Amer. colloq. In sense 2 also Mulligan. E20.
[App. from the surname Mulligan.]
A stew made from odds and ends of Food. E20.
Golf. An extra stroke awarded after a poor shot, not counted on the score card. M20.

Dura (health)


The outermost, toughest, and most fibrous of the three membranes (meninges) covering the brain and the spinal cord. Dura is short for dura mater (from the Latin for hard mother). Also called the pachymeninx (singular) or pachymeniges (plural).