Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The quadrigeminous bodies of the brain, more fully called corpora, quadrigemina. Below mammals they are represented by the corpora bigemina, or twin bodies. See
corpus .
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Sunt aut illi quadrigemina cornicula quorum ostentatione, ueluti esca illiciens sollicitat et animalia perimit.
Sigh. WMAM. 2008
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Sunt aut illi quadrigemina cornicula quorum ostentatione, ueluti esca illiciens sollicitat et animalia perimit.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit.
Sigh. WMAM. 2008
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He was able to show that the nystagmus mechanism is located in the parts of the brain between the entrance of the auditory nerve into the medulla oblongata and the corpora quadrigemina, and that the removal of other parts of the brain has no great influence on the course of this reflex.
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The midbrain carries upon its back and upper surface four small rounded masses of cell-bodies, called the _corpora quadrigemina_.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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The corpora quadrigemina (Fig. 720) are four rounded eminences which form the dorsal part of the mid-brain.
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The corpora quadrigemina are larger in the lower animals than in man.
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In close relationship with the corpora quadrigemina are the superior peduncles, which emerge from the upper and medial parts of the cerebellar hemispheres.
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The cerebral aqueduct (aqueductus cerebri; aqueduct of Sylvius) is a narrow canal, about 15 mm. long, situated between the corpora quadrigemina and tegmenta, and connecting the third with the fourth ventricle.
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