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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about spinal adhesive arachnoiditis and death from spinal adhesive arachnoiditis.
Meaning of spinal adhesive arachnoiditis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, spinal adhesive arachnoiditis:
(a)          means:
(i)             chronic inflammation of the arachnoid membrane of the spinal cord, with fibrosis and nerve root adhesions in the arachnoid and subarachnoid space that have been demonstrated by imaging or surgery; and
(ii)          neurological symptoms and signs that are consistent with the observed spinal pathology; and
(b)          includes arachnoiditis ossificans; and
(c)          excludes asymptomatic transient inflammation of the arachnoid membrane and arachnoid inflammation involving the brain and cranial nerves.
Death from spinal adhesive arachnoiditis
(3)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, spinal adhesive arachnoiditis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's spinal adhesive arachnoiditis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.