Definition of "quadrigemina" []

• The quadrigeminous bodies of the brain, more fully called corpora, quadrigemina. Below mammals they are represented by the corpora bigemina, or twin bodies. See corpus.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Sunt aut illi quadrigemina cornicula quorum ostentatione, ueluti esca illiciens sollicitat et animalia perimit."
• "Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit."
• "He was able to show that the nystagmus mechanism is located in the parts of the brain between the entrance of the auditory nerve into the medulla oblongata and the corpora quadrigemina, and that the removal of other parts of the brain has no great influence on the course of this reflex."