tentorium

American  

[ten-tawr-ee-uhm, -tohr-] / tɛnˈtɔr i əm, -ˈtoʊr- /

noun

plural

tentoria

1. Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.

2. Zoology. (of an insect) the internal skeleton of the head.

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Other Word Forms

• tentorial adjective

Etymology

Origin of tentorium

1655–65; < New Latin tentōrium, Latin: tent, equivalent to ten ( dere ) to extend, stretch + -tōrium -tory ²

Example Sentences

The sharper definition of the lower edge of the cast of the cerebral chamber in the Chimpanzee arises from the circumstance that the tentorium remained in that skull and not in the Man's.

From Lectures and Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry

Tuncque effodiunt in circuitu fossam latam valdè, et profundam vt totum tentorium cum omnibus contentis descendat in illam.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard

The line 'b' indicates the plane of the tentorium, which separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum; 'd', the axis of the occipital outlet of the skull.

From Lectures and Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry

Thus pag�na, page; ποτηριον, pot; κυπελλα, cup; cantharus, can; tentorium, tent; precor, pray; preda, prey; specio, speculor, spy; plico, ply; implico, imply; replico, reply; complico, comply; sedes episcopalis, see.

From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Johnson, Samuel

After locating the occipital knob, a horizontal line forward will give us the portion of the tentorium.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)