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‖ tentorium|tɛnˈtɔərɪəm|
[L. tentōrium tent, f. tend-ĕre, tent- to stretch: see -orium.]
†1. A tent-like covering; an awning; a canopy.
1661Evelyn Fumifug. Misc. Writ. (1805) i. 230 If there were a solid tentorium, or canopy over London.
2. Anat. A membranous (sometimes ossified) partition between the cerebrum and cerebellum.
1800Phil. Trans. XC. 435 There is a very uncommon peculiarity in it, which is, that there is a bony falx of some breadth, but no bony tentorium. 1801Home ibid. XCII. 78 The tentorium is entirely membranous. 1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Orr's Circ. Sc. I. Org. Nat. 232 The parts of the dura mater or outer membrane of the brain, called ‘tentorium’,..are ossified. 1863Huxley Man's Place Nat. ii. 99 What is termed the tentorium—a sort of parchment⁓like shelf or partition which..is interposed between the cerebrum and cerebellum. 1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 512 In many Mammalia the tentorium is ossified. |