COMMISSURE
\kəmˈɪʃə], \kəmˈɪʃə], \k_ə_m_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə]\
Definitions of COMMISSURE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.
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A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.
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The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.
By Oddity Software
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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From committo, (com and mittere, missum,) "to join together." A point of union between two parts: thus, the commissures of the eyelids, lips &c., are the angles, which they form at the place union. See Fibres, converging.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The point of union between any two parts or organs of the body, such as the angles of the lips, eyes, etc.
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A collection of transverse fibers connecting parts in the brain or spinal marrow.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
