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What is a cuneus?

What is a cuneus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) A portion of the occipital lobe of the human brain, involved in visual processing.
  2. (architecture) One of a set of wedge-shaped divisions separated by stairways, found in the Ancient Roman theatre and in mediaeval architecture.
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In the year 1748 a Dutch experimenter named cuneus thought he would try to electrify water.
One cuneus and a monk named Kleist each claimed the honor of original invention of the condenser.
During this measure of executive function, decreases were seen in the cuneus, middle temporal gyrus, inferior parietal lobule, insula, and medial dorsal nucleus of thalamus.
By the early 3rd Century, the garrison had changed to the Cuneus Frisiorum Vinoviensium, which was originally recruited in Holland.
The particular rostroconch that your son and his friend found has the formal name Conocardium cuneus.
Cuneus in Latin means corner and les gens du coin is what the French call the locals.

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