Pulvinar

Word PULVINAR
Character 8
Hyphenation pul vi nar
Pronunciations N/A

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[827] An assumption of divinity, as the pulvinar was the consecrated bed, on which the images of the gods reposed. ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Vivamus vitae eros gravida quam pulvinar sollicitudin. ❋ Ayala Sender (2007)

And upon taking his wife again, after the divorce, he declared by proclamation, "that he had recalled her to his pulvinar." ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)

Oxford friends, including Robert Holler, the son of his Norfolk neighbour, to whom he also bequeathed "unum pulvinar vocatum _le bolstar_." ❋ Robert S. Rait (N/A)

Its fibers terminate in the lateral geniculate body, the pulvinar and the superior colliculus. ❋ Unknown (1918)

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. ❋ Unknown (1918)

These axons terminate in arborizations around the cells in the lateral geniculate body, pulvinar, and superior colliculus which constitute the lower or primary visual centers. ❋ Unknown (1918)

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. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The superior brachium extends lateralward from the superior colliculus, and, passing between the pulvinar and medial geniculate body, is partly continued into an eminence called the lateral geniculate body, and partly into the optic tract. ❋ Unknown (1918)

When traced backward, the afferent fibers of the lateral root are found to end in the lateral geniculate body and pulvinar of the thalamus, and in the superior colliculus; and these three structures constitute the lower visual centers. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The region of the pulvinar in which optic tract fibers terminate resembles in structure the lateral geniculate body. ❋ Unknown (1918)

From the cells of the lateral geniculate body and the pulvinar fibers pass to the cortical visual center, situated in the cuneus and in the neighborhood of the calcarine fissure. ❋ Unknown (1918)

It receives numerous fibers from the optic tract, while other fibers of this tract pass over or through it into the pulvinar. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The medial geniculate body (corpus geniculatum mediale; internal geniculate body; postgeniculatum) lies under cover of the pulvinar of the thalamus and on the lateral aspect of the corpora quadrigemina. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The anterior part comprises the anterior tubercle, the medial part lies next the lateral wall of the third ventricle while the lateral and largest part is interposed between the medullary laminæ and includes the pulvinar. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The superior colliculus, the pulvinar, and the lateral geniculate body receive many fibers from the optic tracts, and are therefore intimately connected with sight, constituting what are termed the lower visual centers. ❋ Unknown (1918)

* Qui docent, 'Doctrinam de perseverantiae: ac salutis certitudine, ex natura et indole sua, esse carnis pulvinar, et pietati, bonis moribus, precibus aliisque sanctis exercitiis noxiam; contra vero de ea dubitare, esse laudabile.' ❋ Unknown (1889)

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