TENTORIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tentorium mean? 

• TENTORIUM (noun)
  The noun TENTORIUM has 1 sense:

1. (anatomy) a fold of dura mater that covers the cerebellum and supports the occipital lobes of the cerebrum

  Familiarity information: TENTORIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENTORIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(anatomy) a fold of dura mater that covers the cerebellum and supports the occipital lobes of the cerebrum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("tentorium" is a kind of...):

fold; plica (a folded part (as in skin or muscle))

Meronyms (substance of "tentorium"):

dura; dura mater (the outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges)

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

 Context examples 

A benign or malignant neoplasm that occurs in brain parenchymal tissue below the tentorium cerebelli.

(Infratentorial Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A primary, noninvasive, slow growing neoplasm of the brain that occurs above the cerebellar tentorium.

(Benign Supratentorial Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A small triangular process of dura matter beginning at the internal occipital crest just beneath the tentorium and projecting forward.

(Falx Cerebelli, NCI Thesaurus)