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Definitions of commissure in various dictionaries:
noun - a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord
A line or place at which two things are joined.
Anatomy.
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| Joint available from chef, no problem |
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| Sep 28 2002 The Times - Cryptic |
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| the joint between two bones. |
| a surface where two parts meet, for example the lips |
| a band of nerves going from one side of the brain or spinal cord to the other to connect similar structures |
| The joint between two bones. |
| A band of nerve tissue connecting the hemispheres of the brain, the two sides of the spinal cord, etc. |
| The line where the upper and lower lips or eyelids meet. |
| A line or place at which two things are joined. |
| Anatomy A tract of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the spinal cord or brain. |
| Anatomy The point or surface where two parts, such as the eyelids, lips, or cardiac valves, join or form a connection. |
| Botany The surface or place along which two structures, such as carpels, are joined. |
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A commissure () is the location at which two objects abut or are joined. The term is used especially in the fields of anatomy and biology.* The most common usage of the term refers to the brain's commissures, of which there are five. Such a commissure is a bundle of commissural fibers as a tract that crosses the midline at its level of origin or entry (as opposed to a decussation of fibers that cross obliquely). The five are the anterior commissure, posterior commissure, corpus callosum, commissure of fornix (hippocampal commissure), and habenular commissure. They consist of fibre tracts that connect the two cerebral hemispheres and span the longitudinal fissure. In the spinal cord there are the anterior white commissure, and the gray commissure. * Commissure also often refers to cardiac anatomy of heart valves. In the heart, a commissure is the area where the valve leaflets abut. When such an abutment is abnormally stiffened or even fused, valvular stenosis results, sometimes requiring commissurotomy. * The term may also refer to the junction of the upper and lower lips (see labial commissure of mouth). * It may refer to the junction of the upper and lower mandibles of a bird's beak, or alternately, to the full-length apposition of the closed mandibles, from the corners of the mouth to the tip of the beak. * It may refer to the upper and lower eyelids. * In female genitalia, the joining points of the two folds of the labia majora create two commissures - the anterior commissure just anterior to the prepuce of the clitoris, and the posterior commissure of the labia majora, directly posterior to the frenulum of the labia minora and anterior to the perineal raphe.In biology, the meeting of the two valves of a brachiopod or clam is a commissure; in botany, the term is used to denote the place where a fern's laterally expanded vein endings come together in a continuous marginal sorus. |