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convergence nucleus of Perlia (medicine)


convergence nucleus of Perlia -->
Perlia's nucleus


A small cell group located between the somatic cell columns of the oculomotor nuclei. Since it is placed between the groups of motor neurons innervating, respectively, the left and right medial rectus muscles, the nucleus is considered to possibly represent an integrating mechanism for ocular convergence.

Synonym: convergence nucleus of Perlia, Spitzka's nucleus.


gloaming (iou)



gloaming noun.
[Old English glomung from glom twilight, prob. from Germanic base of GLOW verb1.]
Evening twilight. OE.
S. Donaldson Before the gloaming had thickened into darkness. fig.: J. M. Barrie The help..needed in the gloaming of their lives.
Morning twilight. rare. M19.
Comb.: gloaming-shot (a) a shot made in the twilight; (b) the beginning of twilight; gloaming sight (a) an indistinct view; (b) a front gun-sight for use in twilight.
? From LME, chiefly Scot. In General literary use from E19.