Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A partition, composed of a strong sheet of the dura mater, stretched across the back part of the cranial cavity in man, between the cerebrum and the cerebellum.
- noun In zoology and anatomy, the endocranium.
- noun Same as
tenture .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
framework of internalsupports (a falseendoskeleton ) within anarthropod head, formed byingrowths of theexoskeleton calledapophyses . - noun anatomy The tentorium cerebelli.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (anatomy) a fold of dura mater that covers the cerebellum and supports the occipital lobes of the cerebrum
Etymologies
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Examples
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For there is a very marked groove in every such skull, as in the human skull -- which indicates the line of attachment of what is termed the 'tentorium' -- a sort of parchment-like shelf, or partition, which, in the recent state, is interposed between the cerebrum and cerebellum, and prevents the former from pressing upon the latter.
On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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For there is a very marked groove in every such skull, as in the human skull -- which indicates the line of attachment of what is termed the 'tentorium' -- a sort of parchment-like shelf, or partition, which, in the recent state, is interposed between the cerebrum and cerebellum, and prevents the former from pressing upon the latter.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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He said there was blood both above and below a part of the brain known as the tentorium, meaning that structure had to be injured, which is characteristic of birth trauma.
Madison.com - top 2009
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The occipital lobe is positioned on a process of the dura mater, known as the tentorium cerebelli, which divides the [[cerebrum]] from the [[cerebellum]]
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
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The occipital lobe is positioned on a process of the dura mater, known as the tentorium cerebelli, which divides the cerebellum.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
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The occipital lobe is positioned on a process of the dura mater, known as the tentorium cerebelli, which divides the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Etissell 2010
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The occipital lobe is positioned on a process of the dura mater, known as the tentorium cerebelli, which divides the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Etissell 2010
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The occipital lobe is positioned on a process of the dura mater, known as the tentorium cerebelli, which divides the [[cerebrum]] from the [[cerebellum]]
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
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The occipital lobe is positioned on a process of the dura mater, known as the tentorium cerebelli, which divides the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Etissell 2010
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The occipital lobe is positioned on a process of the dura mater, known as the tentorium cerebelli, which divides the cerebellum.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
hernesheir commented on the word tentorium
The psychiatrist told him it was all in his head, and forbade him from searching any longer for it in the periodic table of elements.
October 27, 2011
bilby commented on the word tentorium
It's made of cranium you know.
October 27, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word tentorium
:>)
October 27, 2011