COMMISSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commissure mean? 

• COMMISSURE (noun)
  The noun COMMISSURE has 1 sense:

1. a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord

  Familiarity information: COMMISSURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMISSURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("commissure" is a kind of...):

nerve pathway; nerve tract; pathway; tract (a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commissure"):

corpus callosum (a broad transverse nerve tract connecting the two cerebral hemispheres)

 Context examples 

The main neocortical commissure of the cerebral hemispheres; it is subdivided into a genu, a rostrum, a body, and a splenium.

(Corpus Callosum, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)