one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants
2. anatomy
a part of the brainstem that covers the floor of the midbrain
Examples of 'tegmentum' in a sentence
tegmentum
The tegmentum was compromised secondary to dorsal displacement of the corticospinal tracts.
Chi-Wei Lin, Chung-Ping Lo, Min-Chien Tu 2018, 'Horizontal gaze palsy with progressive scoliosis: a case report with magnetic resonancetractography and electrophysiological study', BMC Neurologyhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12883-018-1081-9. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The lesion epicentre was in the right periaqueductal portion of the rostral mesencephalic tegmentum.
Mario Ricciardi, Floriana Gernone, Antonio De Simone, Pasquale Giannuzzi 2017, 'Central vestibular syndrome in a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) with presumptive right caudalcerebral artery ischemic infarct and prevalent midbrain involvement', Open Veterinary Journalhttp://www.openveterinaryjournal.com/OVJ-2017-02-034%20M.%20Ricciardi%20et%20al.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Furthermore, specific activations related to temporal cognition were confirmed within the superior occipital gyrus, tegmentum, motor area, thalamus and putamen.
Chunlin Li, Kewei Chen, Hongbin Han, Dehua Chui, Jinglong Wu 2012, 'An fMRI Study of the Neural Systems Involved in Visually Cued Auditory Top-Down Spatialand Temporal Attention', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0049948. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The magnetic resonance imaging showed symmetrical signal alteration in tegmentum of brain stem, pallidum and thalamus.
MARIE SUELY K.NAGAHASHI, CARVALHO ALZIRA A.S., FONSECA LUIZ FERNANDO, CARVALHO MARYS., REED UMBERTINA C., SCAFF MILBERTO 1999, 'Kearns-Sayre syndrome "plus": classical clinical findings and dystonia', Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatriahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X1999000600020. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Lesions in the midbrain peduncle and pontine tegmentum alongside the caudate nucleus were implicated as critical structures.
Benjamin Rohaut, Kevin W. Doyle, Alexandra S. Reynolds, Kay Igwe, Caroline Couch,Adu Matory, Batool Rizvi, David Roh, Angela Velazquez, Murad Megjhani, Soojin Park,Sachin Agarwal, Christine M. Mauro, Gen Li, Andrey Eliseyev, Vincent Perlbarg, SanderConnolly, Adam M. Brickman, Jan Claassen 2019, 'Deep structural brain lesions associated with consciousness impairment early afterhemorrhagic stroke', Scientific Reportshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-019-41042-2. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)