Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A line or place at which two things are joined.
- noun A tract of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the spinal cord or brain.
- noun The point or surface where two parts, such as the eyelids, lips, or cardiac valves, join or form a connection.
- noun Botany The surface or place along which two structures, such as carpels, are joined.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A joint, seam, suture, or closure; the place where two bodies or parts of a body meet or unite.
- noun That which joins or connects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.
- noun The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.
- noun A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.
- noun (Bot.) The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the place where two things are
joined , especially the line where two parts of ananatomical structure join
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If any thought by flight to escape, he made his head to fly in pieces by the lamboidal commissure, which is a seam in the hinder part of the skull.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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If any thought by flight to escape, he made his head to fly in pieces by the lamboidal commissure, which is a seam in the hinder part of the skull.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Normally, both cerebral hemispheres are linked through the cerebral commissure, which is built up of hundreds of millions of nerve fibers.
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It contains a double fold of pia mater, and its floor is formed by a transverse band of white substance, the anterior white commissure, which is perforated by bloodvessels on their way to or from the central part of the medulla spinalis.
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_Aphonia_ due to cicatricial webs of the larynx may be cured by plastic operations that reform the cords, with a clean, sharp anterior commissure, which is a necessity for clear phonation.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Where the thalami come together and touch or unite on the median line, the junction is called a commissure (commiss. med.) and the space between them where they do not touch is called the third ventricle
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If any thought by flight to escape, he made his head to fly in pieces by the lamboidal commissure, which is a seam in the hinder part of the skull.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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- WOMENThe larger commissure in women may be another reason their two cerebral hemispheres seem to work in partnership on tasks from language to emotional responses.
Gray Matters 2008
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- MENIn men, the commissure is smaller than it is in women, even though men's brains are, on average, larger than women's. ..
Gray Matters 2008
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No. 1 gashes a line from the root of the hair to the commissure of the nose: No. 2 has
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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