Decussate

//dɪˈkʌseɪt//

"Decussate" in a Sentence (3 examples)

Juniperites, ju-ne-per-i′tis, s[ubstantive]. A genus of fossil plants, in which the branches are ranged irregularly; leaves short, obtuse, inserted by a broad base, opposite, decussate, and arranged in four rows.

a decussated period

The two trochlears decussate in the anterior medullary velum.

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