How To Use Cuneus In A Sentence
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Their copies of the old text were reprinted in every land and by the middle of the nineteenth century, the cuneiform language (so called because the letters were wedge-shaped and "cuneus" is the Latin name for wedge) had given up its secrets.
Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations
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The cuneus is a wedge-shaped area between the calcarine fissure and the medial part of the parietoöccipital fissure.
IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
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Embolium: Heteroptera; the narrow sclerite extending along the anterior margin of the hemelytra, from base to cuneus or membrane: the lobes on each side of the prothorax: the special enlargement at the base of the primaries which fits into a cavity in which the wing is moved.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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Rational Review
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Scans found significant differences in the precuneus, an area of the brain associated with memory, visuospatial perception, self-awareness, and consciousness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Archaeologists call this first writing "cuneiform," from the Latin "cuneus," meaning wedge.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Appendix: a supplementary or additional piece or part, added to or attached to another: in Heteroptera; = cuneus, q.v. Appress - ed: to press against; closely applied to.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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It is of small size, and consists of a square-shaped convolution, which is termed the precuneus or quadrate lobe.
IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
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[3131] Peter Cuneus, Bona fide agam, nihil eorum quae scripturus sum, verum esse scitote, &c. quae nec facta, nec futura sunt, dicam,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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This first writing system, cuneiform -- from the Latin word cuneus, for wedge -- was invented by the region's first powerful culture, the non-Semitic Sumerians, during the fourth millennium BC.
Chicago Reader
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The shape of these signs is that of a wedge, hence the name cuneiform (from the Latin cuneus, "a wedge").
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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There were also some further internal arrangements, for Augustus separated married from unmarried men, and assigned a separate cuneus to youths, near whom their tutors were stationed.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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Maledicat illum cuneus martyrum et confessorum mirificus, qui Deo bonis operibus placitus inventus est. os
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Thence the Latin _cuneus_, from _cune_ or _kyn_, the head.
Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
