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Definition of Commissures
1. commissure [n] - See also: commissure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commissures
Literary usage of Commissures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"(2) In the amphibians, the cerebral commissures lie behind the foramen of Monro.
... (3) In the reptiles, the cerebral commissures lie below and slightly in ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"This consists in the constant presence of three dorsal commissures or, ...
These three commissures are primitive features of the brain and they appear in ..."
3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"This consists in the constant presence of three dorsal commissures or, ...
These three commissures are primitive features of the brain and they appear in ..."
4. The Anatomy of the Brain: With a General View of the Nervous System by Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, Robert Willis (1826)
"Of the commissures or Fibres of Union. ALL the proper cerebral organs, like the
other instruments ... These have been long known by the name of commissures. ..."
5. Phrenology Made Practical and Popularly Explained by Frederick Bridges (1861)
"The commissures of the brain are parts that extend across from one hemisphere of
the brain to the other, and are evidently intended to produce unity of ..."
6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1893)
"... Remedy for Exophthalmic Goitre—Scientific Teetotalism—The Cerebral commissures
in the Marsu- piala and Monotremata—Cases Treated by Psycho-Theraphy—A ..."
7. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"The cavity of the third ventricle is crossed by three commissures, named, from
their position, anterior, middle, and posterior. The anterior commissure is a ..."
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