commissure
English
/ˈkɒm.ɪs.jʊə/, /ˈkɑm.əˌʃʊɹ/
noun
Definitions
- (anatomy) The joint between two bones.
- (neuroanatomy) A band of nerve tissue connecting the hemispheres of the brain, the two sides of the spinal cord, etc.
- (anatomy) The line where the upper and lower lips or eyelids meet.
Etymology
Derived from Latin commissura (a joining connecting together), commissus + Latin la (-er, will, soul, -tion, -bearing, l, -devouring, related to doing, -ity, -eating, -ness)+ Latin committo + Latin I join, I connect.
Origin
Latin
I join, I connect
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bicommissural English
- circumcommissural English
- commissural English
- commissureless English
- commissuroplasty English
- commissurotomy English
- infracommissural English
- intercommissural English
- midcommissural English
- noncommissural English
- paracommissural English
- pericommissural English
- postcommissural English
- postcommissure English
- postcommissurotomy English
- precommissural English
- precommissure English
- pyruvic acid English
- subcommissural English
- supracommissural English
- Amiternum Latin
- I join, I connect Latin
- agricultor Latin
- apiscor Latin
- caldarium Latin
- commissura Latin
- commissus Latin
- committo Latin
- delator Latin
- eluctor Latin
- ibidem Latin
- intactus Latin
- invicem Latin
- iurisdictio Latin
- la Latin
- litigo Latin
- mittō Latin
- nequam Latin
- nunciativus Latin
- praeditus Latin
- praenotatio Latin
- qui bene amat, bene castigat Latin
- ratiocinor Latin
- ructo Latin
- tandem Latin
- commesso Italian
- ラピスラズリ Japanese
- comès Catalan, Valencian
- commissural
- pyruvic acid
- precommissure
- bicommissural
- noncommissural
- commissurotomy
- subcommissural
- commissureless
- precommissural
- midcommissural
- postcommissure
- paracommissural
- postcommissural
- pericommissural
- infracommissural
- supracommissural
- commissuroplasty
- intercommissural
- circumcommissural
- postcommissurotomy