Postcommissure

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A transverse commissure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commissure.

    "By gently moving its caudal end , its ventro-cephalic angle will be found to be continuous with the mesocælian roof by a curved and corrugated lamina, the POSTCOMMISSURE"

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"By gently moving its caudal end , its ventro-cephalic angle will be found to be continuous with the mesocælian roof by a curved and corrugated lamina, the POSTCOMMISSURE"

Etymology

From post- + commissure.

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