Meanings
plural corpotentoria
- biologyA median ventral plate of the tentorium of some insects.
The large bar extending cephalad from each end of the corpotentorium to a pretentorina is a pretentorium.
1923, Alexander Dyer MacGillivray, External Insect-anatomy1 more example
In more primitive insects a median plate called the corpotentorium is sometimes formed between the two sides of the tentorium, but this plate is poorly developed or absent in Diptera.
1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 12
Origin
- Latincorpus
- Englishcorpotentorium
From Latin corpus + tentorium.
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