postcommissure

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noun

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

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Meanings

nounpostcommissure (plural postcommissures)

plural postcommissures

  1. anatomyA 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

    1893, Burt Green Wilder, Physiology Practicums

Origin

From post- + commissure.

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