Definition of Cuneal

1. Adjective. Shaped like a wedge.

Exact synonyms: Cuneiform, Wedge-shaped
Partainyms: Wedge

Definition of Cuneal

1. Adjective. shaped like a wedge; cuneiform ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cuneal

1. cuneate [adj] - See also: cuneate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuneal

cumylic
cumyls
cunabula
cunctation
cunctations
cunctative
cunctator
cunctators
cunctatory
cunctipotent
cundies
cundum
cundums
cundurango
cundy
cuneal (current term)
cuneate
cuneate fasciculus
cuneate funiculus
cuneate leaf
cuneate nucleus
cuneated
cuneately
cuneatic
cuneiform
cuneiform bone
cuneiform bones
cuneiform cartilage
cuneiform cataract
cuneiform lobe

Literary usage of Cuneal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1914)
"Longitudinal muscles from the superior cunea above the superior cuneal notch ... An oblique, single, small muscle from the anterior cuneal notch to the ..."

2. Medical Diagnosis: Special Diagnosis of Internal Medicine by Wilhelm Olivier von Leube, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1904)
"Those fibres of the posterior roots are especially affected by the degeneration, which traverse the external zone (radiating root zone) of the cuneal ..."

3. The Arris and Gale lectures on the neurology of vision by John Herbert Parsons (1904)
"The area occupies the whole of the body of the calcarine fissure extending above to the parallel cuneal sulcus, and below to the collateral fissure. ..."

4. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1900)
"The upper or cuneal lip belongs to the ... simply explained on the supposition of a hemorrhage in the upper cuneal lip which completely inhibited the right ..."

5. Histological Studies on the Localisation of Cerebral Function by Alfred Walter Campbell (1905)
"On the cuneus, the cuneal sulcus (parallel cuneal sulcus of Boltoni), a small fissure running parallel with the posterior calcarine fissure, commonly forms ..."

6. The Eye and Nervous System: Their Diagnostic Relations by William Campbell Posey, William Gibson Spiller (1906)
"... (3) that the macula, or at least the fovea, is represented in the anterior extremity of the calcarine fissure and its cuneal border; and (4) that a zone ..."

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