Tentorium

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tentorium \Ten*to"ri*um\, n. [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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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