Word: arachnoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ropes in the twelfth. With a trip-hammer succession of alternating right uppercuts and left hooks, Griffith slammed Paret's head from side to side. Different parts of Paret's brain were hit by the overlying skull with enough force to break blood vessels between the middle (arachnoid) and outermost (dura mater) layers of the brain's covering (meninges). The resulting accumulations of blood and clots (called hematomas), together with multiple bruises and severe swelling, exerted intolerable pressure on several parts of Paret's brain and cut the elaborate circuitry of the nervous system...