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noun
The joint between two bones.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
A band of nerve tissue connecting the hemispheres of the brain, the two sides of the spinal cord, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, neuroanatomy, neurology, neuroscience, sciences
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noun
The line where the upper and lower lips or eyelids meet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: nerve pathway, tract, nerve tract, pathway
Narrower terms: corpus callosum
History
From Latin commissura (“a joining or connecting together”), from commissus (passive perfect participle of committo (“to join, to connect”)) + -ura.
Across languages
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