Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greco-Roman arch., a pillow-shaped or cushion-shaped detail; especially, in an Ionic capital, the drooping curve which joins two volutes on the same side.
- Padded or padlike; cushiony; pillowy: as, the pulvinar prominence of the brain.
- noun A pillow or cushion; a medicated cushion.
- noun The posterior inner part of the optic thalamus, forming a prominence on its upper surface. Also called
posterior tubercle . - noun The cushion of fat filling up the non-articular part of the acetabulum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy A
prominence on theposterior part of thethalamus of thehuman brain .
Etymologies
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Examples
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[827] An assumption of divinity, as the pulvinar was the consecrated bed, on which the images of the gods reposed.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12: Domitian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Medially it presents an angular prominence, the pulvinar, which is continued laterally into an oval swelling, the lateral geniculate body, while beneath the pulvinar, but separated from it by the superior brachium, is a second oval swelling, the medial geniculate body.
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Vivamus vitae eros gravida quam pulvinar sollicitudin.
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Vivamus vitae eros gravida quam pulvinar sollicitudin.
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And upon taking his wife again, after the divorce, he declared by proclamation, "that he had recalled her to his pulvinar."
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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And upon taking his wife again, after the divorce, he declared by proclamation, "that he had recalled her to his pulvinar."
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12: Domitian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Oxford friends, including Robert Holler, the son of his Norfolk neighbour, to whom he also bequeathed "unum pulvinar vocatum _le bolstar_."
Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait
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The region of the pulvinar in which optic tract fibers terminate resembles in structure the lateral geniculate body.
IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves 1918
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Most of the fibers of the optic tract terminate in the lateral geniculate body, some pass through the superior brachium to the superior colliculus, and others either pass over or through the lateral geniculate body to the pulvinar of the thalamus.
IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves 1918
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They are covered by the splenium of the corpus callosum, and are partly overlapped on either side by the medial angle, or pulvinar, of the posterior end of the thalamus; on the lateral aspect, under cover of the pulvinar, is an oval eminence, named the medial geniculate body.
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