2009 January 25, Denis Campbell, “Kian, 4, needs a miracle. He's in the right place”, inThe Observer[1]:
One screen in the theatre relays live colour pictures of Harkness and his colleague Tiernan Byrnes's progress, cutting and pushing through first the dura, then the arachnoid and finally thepia, the thin, spider's web-type membranes that cover the brain itself.
^Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “pia”, inHawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press,→ISBN, page325
↑2.02.1Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “pia1”, inPOLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
^Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016)The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 5: Plants, Canberra: Australian National University,→ISBN, pages286-289
pia in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
"pia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
