Mater
Mater is a formal Latin term for mother and may refer to:
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Places
- Mater, Belgium, a village near Oudenaarde
Health care
Australia
- Mater Health Services, Brisbane, Australia
- Mater Health Services North Queensland, which incorporates:
- Mater Hospital Pimlico, Townsville, Queensland,
- Mater Women's and Children's Hospital
- Calvary Mater Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales
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
Other uses
- Mater (Cars), a character in the Disney animated film Cars
- Mater, an album by the Slovak composer Vladimír Godár featuring singer Iva Bittová
- 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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