Pl. -a. [L. collateral form of tegumentum TEGUMENT.]
1. Bot. Each of the scales forming the covering of a leaf-bad; a bud-scale.
1832. Lindley, Introd. Bot., 51. Thus, in the Beech, the tegmenta are thin, smooth, and dry.
1842. Brande, Dict. Sc.
1861. Bentley, Man. Bot. (1870), 94. These external modified leaves,… termed scales,… have also received the name of tegmenta.
2. Anat. The upper and hinder portion of each of the crura cerebri.
1879. St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 670. Those on the opposite surface of the crus, which form the tegmentum.
1893. Sir W. R. Gowers, Dis. Nerv. Syst., II. 438. There may be hemianæsthesia from softening of the tegmentum of the crus.
