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Chiasma   Listen
noun
Chiasma, Chiasm  n.  (Anat.) A commissure; an intersection or crossing of two tracts; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves..





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... the commissure, commonly called the optic nerve. We are prepared, therefore, to find these two little brains in the most intimate relations with each other, as we find the cerebral hemispheres. We know that they are directly connected by fibres that arch round through the chiasma. ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)


Words linked to "Chiasma" :   optic chiasm, body structure, anatomical structure, structure, chiasm, bodily structure, optic chiasma


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