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Definition of Chiasms
1. chiasm [n] - See also: chiasm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiasms
Literary usage of Chiasms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"These points are called chiasms. The author's studies in insects develop ...
Instead of angular torsion and chiasms, double or multiple rings appear much ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1878)
"Desiring to prove Hint the result reached with the cat is applicable also to man,
I sought to establish the structural identity of their chiasms. ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1878)
"Desiring to prove that the result reached with the cat is applicable also to man,
I sought to establish the structural identity of their chiasms. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1897)
"Permission to open the skull-cap only was obtained, and the posterior halves of
the eyes, together with the optic nerves, chiasms, and tracts, were removed ..."
5. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by James Magoffin French, Charles Spencer Williamson (1908)
"The outer half of both fit-Ids is usually affected (temporal hemianopia) in
lesions of the central portion of both chiasms; the inner portion (nasal ..."
6. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1897)
"Dog killed : eyes, optic nerves, and chiasms removed. EXPERIMENT III. — Original
salicylic acid dog was given sixty more grains of salicylate of soda, 4-4, ..."
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