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circumcommissural

circumcommissural adjective: surrounding a commissure.

Adjective

circumcommissural (not comparable)

  1. Surrounding a commissure
    • In support of a functional dichotomy between the dorsolateral/circumcommissural core (mediating cocaine reward and seeking at the cost of prosocial interaction) versus the medial shell (mediating prosocial interaction at the cost of drug seeking), lesions of the medial shell (with the lesions...2015 July 31, Gerald Zernig, Barbara S. Pinheiro, “Dyadic social interaction inhibits cocaine-conditioned place preference and the associated activation of the accumbens corridor”, in Behavioural...

Origin of circumcommissural

From circum- + commissural.

Questions about circumcommissural

What does circumcommissural mean?
Circumcommissural means surrounding a commissure.
What part of speech is circumcommissural?
Circumcommissural is an adjective.

Words near circumcommissural in the dictionary

  1. circumcizors
  2. circumcloacal
  3. circumclusion
  4. circumclusions
  5. circumcolumnar
  6. circumcommissural
  7. circumconic
  8. circumconics
  9. circumcontinental
  10. circumcorneal
  11. circumcoronene

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