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bicommissural

bicommissural adjective: relating to both the anterior and posterior commissures.

Adjective

bicommissural (not comparable)

  1. Relating to both the anterior and posterior commissures
    • In a first step, the interhemispheric midsagittal plane and the orthogonal plane through the bicommissural line between the anterior and posterior commissures were determined as reference planes.2015 September 2, “Striatal Infarction Elicits Secondary Extrafocal MRI Changes in Ipsilateral Substantia Nigra”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of bicommissural

From bi- + commissural.

Questions about bicommissural

What does bicommissural mean?
Bicommissural means relating to both the anterior and posterior commissures.
What part of speech is bicommissural?
Bicommissural is an adjective.

Words near bicommissural in the dictionary

  1. bicolpate
  2. bicolumnar
  3. bicombing
  4. bicombings
  5. bicomissural
  6. bicommissural
  7. bicommisural
  8. bicommunal
  9. bicommunalism
  10. bicommunalisms
  11. bicommutant

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