Definition of Tomentum cerebri

1. Noun. A network of tiny blood vessels between the cerebral surface of the pia mater and the cerebral cortex.

Exact synonyms: Tomentum
Generic synonyms: Capillary, Capillary Vessel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tomentum Cerebri

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tomentum
tomentum cerebri (current term)
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Literary usage of Tomentum cerebri

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1834)
"... under the name of tomentum cerebri. membrane must exist. It cannot be supposed that a mass of the magnitude of the brain, and possessing so definite an ..."

2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"... and is named tomentum cerebri. On the cerebellum a ir arrangement exists, but the membrane is finer, and the double mly distinct in the larger ..."

3. A System of human anatomy, general and special by Erasmus Wilson (1859)
"... (tomentum cerebri) to the gray substance. In the substantia perforata, again, and locus perforatus, it gives off tufts of small arteries, which pierce ..."

4. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"... calls ' tomentum cerebri.' The movements of the brain are served by a delicate serous sac, called the ' arachnoid.' The outermost membrane, called ..."

5. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"... calls ' tomentum cerebri.' The movements of the brain are served by a delicate serous sac, called the ' arachnoid.' The outermost membrane, called ..."

6. Brookesian Museum: The Museum of Joshua Brookes ... Consists of a Collection by Joshua Brookes (1828)
"57 A fine specimen of the pia mater, and tomentum cerebri, minutely injected. 58 A specimen of ossification of the ramifications of the cerebral artery. ..."

7. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1875)
"... or, to speak more accurately, by projection of its inner flocculent surface, the tomentum cerebri. But it appears to me, that this teaching is more the ..."

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