Commissure

[kɒmisjuә]

Definition

(noun.) a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord.

Typist: Rodger--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.

(n.) The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.

(n.) A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.

(n.) The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.

Checker: Shelia

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Seam, joint.

Edited by Candice

Definition

n. a joint: place where two bodies meet and unite: (anat.) a term applied to nervous connections between adjacent parts of the nervous system.—adj. Commis′sural.

Edited by Enrico