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commissure

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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. Source: Internet

Fibers cross over (left becomes right) via the spinal anterior white commissure. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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