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Mater is a formal Latin term for mother and may refer to:

Places

• Mater, Belgium, a village near Oudenaarde

Health care

Australia

• Mater Hospital, North Sydney, New South Wales
• Mater Group, Brisbane, Queensland
• Mater Health Services North Queensland, which incorporates:
  • Mater Hospital Pimlico, Townsville, Queensland
  • Mater Women's and Children's Hospital

UK and Ireland

• Mater Infirmorum Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland (the best-known hospital in Ireland that is referred to as the Mater)
• Mater Private Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Music

• Mater, an album by Vladimír Godár
• "Mater", a song by The Beat Fleet from Pistaccio Metallic, 2011

Other uses

• Mater (Cars), a character in the Disney animated film Cars
• Mater, a major part of an astrolabe
• M.A.T.E.R., a football (soccer) club in Rome

See also

• Juris Māters (1845–1885), Latvian writer and journalist
• Dura mater, the outermost layer of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord in mammals
• Arachnoid mater, the middle layer of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord in mammals
• Pia mater, the innermost layer of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord in mammals

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