| 单词 |
pulvinar |
| 释义 |
▪ I. ‖ pulvinar, n.|pʌlˈvaɪnə(r)|
Also 6 -are.
[a. L. pulvīnar a couch, orig. neuter pulvīnāre of pulvīnāris adj., f. pulvīn-us cushion, pillow.]
1. Rom. Antiq. A couch or cushioned seat of the gods; also, the cushioned seat in the circus.
1600Holland Livy v. lii. 213 In that one high feast and solemne dinner of Iupiter, can a Pulvinar be celebrated, or a sacred Table be spred and furnished in any place, but in the Capitoll? 1606― Sueton. 60 Himselfe behelde the Circeian Games..sometime out of the Pulvinar, sitting there with his wife onely and children. 1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §290 (ed. 2) 323 The ornaments of the spina of the Roman Circus, among others the pulvinar.
2. Surg. A small pillow or cushion; sometimes, a medicated cushion or pad. ? Obs.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 53/2 But an hower therafter applye this little pulvinare on thy Eyes. 1811Hooper's Med. Dict., Pulvinar.., a medicated cushion. 1897in Syd. Soc. Lex.
3. Anat. The posterior inner tubercle of the optic thalamus.
1886in Cassell's Encycl. Dict. 1890H. Gray Anat. (ed. 12) 685 Its posterior extremity..internally forms a well-marked prominence, the posterior tubercle or pulvinar. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 337 A case of symmetrical softening of the pulvinar.
b. The cushion of fat by which the non-articular part of the acetabulum is filled up.
▪ II. pulvinar, a.|pʌlˈvaɪnə(r)|
[ad. L. pulvīnār-is: see prec.]
Of or pertaining to a pulvinus.
1883Science I. 179/1 The pulvinar parenchyma is composed in greater part of finely porous cells.
So pulviˈnarian a. [f. L. pulvīnāri-s or pulvīnāri-us + -an], cushion-like, pulvinated.
a1886S. Ferguson Ogham Inscript. (1887) 31 The casts of these pulvinarian cope-stones..exhibit many imperfections. |
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