commissure
Noun
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A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.
The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.
A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.
The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.
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Additional images Coronal section of brain through anterior commissure Horizontal section of right cerebral hemisphere.
Fibers cross over (left becomes right) via the spinal anterior white commissure.
In the rat, the two hippocampi resemble a pair of bananas, joined at the stems by the hippocampal commissure that crosses the midline under the anterior corpus callosum.