Cuneus

Gray's FIG. 727– Medial surface of left cerebral hemisphere. (Cuneus visible at left.)

Cuneus (Latin for "wedge"; plural, cunei) is also the architectural term applied to the wedge-shaped divisions of the Roman theatre separated by the scalae or stairways; see Vitruvius v. 4.

The cuneus is a portion of the human brain in the occipital lobe.

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