tentorium cerebelli

Structure: - a prominent fold in dura mater, roofing the posterior cranial fossa, separating the cerebellum from the basal surface of the occipital lobe & temporal lobeof the cerebral cortex - the tentorial notch is its anterior median opening through which the midbrain passes. - it is attached along the midline to the falx cerebri

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999