decussation
[dee-kuh-sey-shuh n, dek-uh-]
noun
a process of becoming or condition of being crossed in the form of an X.
Anatomy. a nerve or tract of nerve fibers that crosses from one side of the central nervous system to the other.
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Origin of decussation
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Historical Examples of decussation
This arrangement is termed the decussation of the anterior columns of the medulla.
A Treatise on Physiology and HygieneJoseph Chrisman Hutchison
The most anterior is the pyramid or motor tract, the decussation of which has been seen.
Physicians are not without the use of this decussation in several operations, in ligatures and union of dissolved continuities.
The Works of Sir Thomas BrowneThomas Browne
decussation
[dĕk′ə-sā′shən, dē′kə-]
n.
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