spinal dura mater

A dura mater that is part of a spinal cord [Automatically generated definition]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the spinal dura mater is

A dura mater that is part of a spinal cord [Automatically generated definition]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the spinal dura mater is

It sits in the back, within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the spinal dura mater connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. part of dorsum and spinal cord.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the spinal dura mater. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as dura mater of neuraxis of spinal cord, dura mater of spinal cord, spinal cord dura mater and spinal cord dura mater of neuraxis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002093, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: dorsum and spinal cord.
• A kind of: dura mater, meninx and organ.

Questions

Where is the spinal dura mater?

It sits in the back, within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the spinal dura mater connect to?

Part of: dorsum and spinal cord.

Is the spinal dura mater the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.