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Webster 1913 Edition
Tentorium
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Ten-to′ri-um
,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 2025
tentorium
tentorium
English
Noun
tentorium (plural tentoria)
- The framework of internal supports (a false endoskeleton) within an arthropod head, formed by ingrowths of the exoskeleton called apophyses.
- (anatomy) The tentorium cerebelli.
Latin
Noun
tentōrium n (genitive tentōrīi); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tentōrium | tentōria |
| genitive | tentōriī | tentōriōrum |
| dative | tentōriō | tentōriīs |
| accusative | tentōrium | tentōria |
| ablative | tentōriō | tentōriīs |
| vocative | tentōrium | tentōria |
References
- tentorium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tentorium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- TENTORIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tentorium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- tentorium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers