...that round about the commissure of all our joints...
Source: wiktionary
Commissure
//ˈkɒm.ɪs.jʊə//
Synonyms for "commissure"
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Esperanto
2 entries- buŝangulo noun (point where the upper and lower lips or eyelids join)
- lipangulo noun (point where the upper and lower lips or eyelids join)
French
1 entries- commissure noun (point where the upper and lower lips or eyelids join)
Portuguese
1 entries- comissura noun (point where the upper and lower lips or eyelids join)
Spanish
1 entries- comisura noun (point where the upper and lower lips or eyelids join)
Sample sentences
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There is a third inner eyelid, highly developed and of beautiful mechanism: this is the nictitating membrane, or "winker" (nictito, I wink), a delicate, elastic, translucent, pearly-white fold of the conjunctiva. While the other lids move vertically and have a horizontal commissure, the winker sweeps horizontally or obliquely across the ball, from the side next the beak to the opposite.
Source: wiktionary
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