Medical Dictionary

arachnoid granulation

noun

Medical Definition of ARACHNOID GRANULATION

:  any of the small whitish processes that are enlarged villi of the arachnoid membrane of the brain which protrude into the superior sagittal sinus and into depressions in the neighboring bone—called also arachnoid villus, pacchionian body

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