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Webster 1913 Edition


Tentorium


Ten-to′ri-um

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Noun.
[L., a tent.]
(Anat.)
A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.

Definition 2024


tentorium

tentorium

English

Noun

tentorium (plural tentoria)

  1. The framework of internal supports (a false endoskeleton) within an arthropod head, formed by ingrowths of the exoskeleton called apophyses.
  2. (anatomy) The tentorium cerebelli.

Latin

Noun

tentōrium n (genitive tentōrīi); second declension

  1. tent

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative tentōrium tentōria
genitive tentōriī tentōriōrum
dative tentōriō tentōriīs
accusative tentōrium tentōria
ablative tentōriō tentōriīs
vocative tentōrium tentōria

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