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Decussated   Listen
adjective
Decussated, Decussate  adj.  
1.
Crossed; intersected.
2.
(Bot.) Growing in pairs, each of which is at right angles to the next pair above or below; as, decussated leaves or branches.
3.
(Rhet.) Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other; as, a decussated period.






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"Decussated" Quotes from Famous Books



... pyramids in the lower third of the medulla, the main mass of the motor fibres crosses the middle line, and enters the lateral column of the spinal cord as the crossed pyramidal tract. The remaining fibres pass down as the direct pyramidal tract, and decussate in the cord ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles



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