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Definition of Pulvinar
1. n. A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.
Definition of Pulvinar
1. pulvinus [adj] - See also: pulvinus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulvinar
Literary usage of Pulvinar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"In the second place, a very large number of fibres passing the corpus geniculatum
on its ventral and Literal surfaces spread out into the pulvinar (PF). ..."
2. A German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied Sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"... olfactory fossa laar, n. cilium of olfactory jus membrane lärchen, n. = -haar
laut, /. olfactory mucous brane ügel, m. pulvinar of nasal ..."
3. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"The buried portion of the pulvinar is exposed in a transverse section taken ...
192) ; the extreme end of this part of the pulvinar (Pvr) is here seen lying ..."