| dura | (noun) the outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges | Synonyms: dura mater |
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| durability | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: enduringness, lastingness, strength |
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| durable | (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: indestructible, perdurable, undestroyable |
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| (adjective) existing for a long time | Synonyms: lasting, long-lasting, long-lived |
| (adjective) capable of withstanding wear and tear and decay | Synonyms: long-wearing |
| durables | (noun) consumer goods that are not destroyed by use | Synonyms: consumer durables, durable goods |
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| dural | (adjective) of or relating to the dura mater | - |
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| duramen | (noun) the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | Synonyms: heartwood |
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| durance | (noun) imprisonment (especially for a long time) | - |
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| duration | (noun) continuance in time | Synonyms: length |
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| (noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: continuance |
| (noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: continuance |
| durative | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration | Synonyms: durative aspect |
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| endurable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: bearable, sufferable, supportable |
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| endurance | (noun) the power to withstand hardship or stress | - |
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| (noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive | Synonyms: survival |
| epidural | (adjective) on or outside the dura mater | Synonyms: extradural |
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| (noun) regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery | Synonyms: epidural anaesthesia, epidural anesthesia |
| extradural | (adjective) on or outside the dura mater | Synonyms: epidural |
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| indurate | (adjective) emotionally hardened | Synonyms: callous, pachydermatous |
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| (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: harden |
| (verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: harden |
| (verb) become fixed or established | - |
| (verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: harden, inure |
| induration | (noun) any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue | Synonyms: sclerosis |
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| obduracy | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: adamance, unyieldingness |
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| obdurate | (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, stony |
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| (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obstinate, unrepentant |
| obdurately | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: cussedly, mulishly, obstinately, pig-headedly, stubbornly |
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| pandurate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center | Synonyms: fiddle-shaped, panduriform |
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| perdurability | (noun) the property of being extremely durable | - |
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| perdurable | (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: durable, indestructible, undestroyable |
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| procedural | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: adjective |
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| (adjective) of or relating to procedure | - |
| subdural | (adjective) below the dura mater but above the arachnoid membrane of the meninges | - |
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| unendurable | (adjective) incapable of being tolerated or endured | Synonyms: intolerable, unbearable |
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