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Word: Pulvinar
Speech Type: Noun
late 16th century (in an earlier sense). From classical Latin pulvīnar couch or cushioned seat of the gods, cushioned seat at a Roman circus, use as noun of neuter of pulvīnāris (adjective) of or belonging to a cushion from pulvīnus cushion, pillow + -āris
The imperial seat in a Roman circus.
A cushion-like prominence in the brain occupying the posterior end of the thalamus.
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