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Definition of Chiasmic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to a chiasm.

Definition of Chiasmic

1. chiasma [adj] - See also: chiasma

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiasmic

Literary usage of Chiasmic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ovid: Selected Works, with Notes and Vocabulary by Ovid (1900)
"... repetitions in parallel and chiasmic order, exhibit an amazing fluency which amounts to an almost fatal facility of language. Add to this the ceaseless, ..."

2. Endocrine Glands and the Sympathetic System by Pierre Lereboullet (1922)
"(a) A pre-chiasmic lesion results in visual disturbances in the corresponding ... (6) A chiasmic lesion suppresses vision on the nasal i It is believed that ..."

3. 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 (1886)
"He would have still a third decussation (counting the chiasmic as the first) somewhere in the callosal fibres, so that after the fibres for one whole retina ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1886)
"He would have still a third decussation (counting the chiasmic as the first) somewhere in the callosal fibres, so that after the fibres for one whole retina ..."

5. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1886)
"the justification of this, closing (verse 50) with a chiasmic recapitulation in which he pointedly puts the moral difference first: " Now this I say, ..."

6. The Diagnosis of nervous diseases by James Purves-Stewart (1908)
"Such chiasmic lesions may result from pressure by tumours, syphilitic or inflammatory affections of the basi-sphenoid, from tumours of the brain or of its ..."

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