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Definition of Chiasmal
1. Adjective. Of or relating to a chiasm.
Category relationships: Anatomy, General Anatomy
Derivative terms: Chiasm, Chiasm, Chiasm
Partainyms: Chiasma, Chiasma, Chiasma
Definition of Chiasmal
1. chiasma [adj] - See also: chiasma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiasmal
Literary usage of Chiasmal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"Their cases serve to illustrate the fact that in the presence of chiasmal pressure
of known long duration associated with sharply cut ..."
2. Ophthalmic Lenses and Prisms: An Essay Contributed to "The American by Charles Frederick Prentice (1917)
"However, in order to avoid misconception, it is emphasized that the chiasmal
image is not to be construed as an actual image, but that "it shall signify ..."
3. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1908)
"... in so far as they concern lesions of the optic chiasm and therefore probably
of the pituitary body under title of " chiasmal central amblyopia. ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"The bottom is formed in succession from before backward by the chiasmal recess,
... lamina,' situated immediately in advance of the chiasmal recess. ..."
5. Oculo-refractive Cyclopedia and Dictionary by Thomas George Atkinson (1921)
"chiasmal Image. See chiasmal Image. Cyclopic Image. The single image of one's
eye which one sees when looking stereoscopically into a plane mirror, ie, ..."
6. Papers to be Presented Before the Section on Ophthalmology of the American by Section on Ophthalmology, American Medical Association, American Medical Association Section on Ophthalmology (1914)
"It has been found in tract and chiasmal lesions both with and without relative
central scotomata. The topical diagnosis in the cases presented, ..."
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