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Definition of Chiasmas
1. chiasma [n] - See also: chiasma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiasmas
Literary usage of Chiasmas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"Each cord is really a double structure, connected at intervals by chiasmas, and
so soon as it enters the radial it divides into two branches, ..."
2. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1906)
"commissure in BB, brachial chiasmas, chambered organ blind above, its extensions
in stem and cirri, function partly nutritive ; REICHENSPERGER 10. ..."
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