commissure

American  

[kom-uh-shoor, -shur] / ˈkɒm əˌʃʊər, -ˌʃɜr /

noun

1. a joint; seam; suture.

2. Botany. the joint or face by which one carpel coheres with another.

3. Anatomy, Zoology. a connecting band of nerve fiber, especially one joining the right and left sides of the brain or spinal cord.

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commissure British  

/ kəˈmɪsjʊrəl, ˈkɒmɪˌsjʊə, ˌkɒmɪˈsjʊərəl /

noun

1. a band of tissue linking two parts or organs, such as the nervous tissue connecting the right and left sides of the brain in vertebrates

2. any of various joints between parts, as between the carpels, leaf lobes, etc, of a plant

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• intercommissural
  adjective
• commissural
  adjective
• pseudocommissural
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of commissure

1375–1425; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin commissūra, equivalent to commiss ( us ) ( see commissary) + -ūra -ure

Example Sentences

However, according to a study that was performed ten years later, the size of the anterior commissure is not affected by sexual orientation.

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2012

A 1992 study showed that the anterior commissure, a smaller connection between the brain’s two hemispheres, is larger in homosexual men than in straight men.

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2012

And the French police commissure for Vinh took a liking to the brilliant, angry young Giap, got him out of prison, and sent him off to one of the best French schools in Indo-China.

From Time Magazine Archive

The right half of the commissure with its ganglion is supra-intestinal, the left half with its ganglion infra-intestinal.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

Bill stout, convex or slightly angular above, straight at the base, much hooked at the tip, commissure simply festooned; cere bristly; nostrils rounded or oval; wings long.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.