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postcommissural

postcommissural adjective: posterior to a commissure.

Adjective

postcommissural (not comparable)

  1. posterior to a commissure
    • For VOI analysis, the striatum was divided into three functional subdivisions as described previously [43 ]: the limbic striatum consisted of the ventral striatum; the associative striatum consisted of the precommissural dorsal putamen, precommissural dorsal caudate, and postcommissural caudate...2015 December 15, “Striatal Dopamine D 2 /D 3 Receptor Availability Is Associated with Executive Function in Healthy Controls but Not Methamphetamine Users”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of postcommissural

From post- + commissural.

Questions about postcommissural

What does postcommissural mean?
Postcommissural means posterior to a commissure.
What part of speech is postcommissural?
Postcommissural is an adjective.

Words near postcommissural in the dictionary

  1. postcolumbian
  2. postcolumn
  3. postcombat
  4. postcombustion
  5. postcomissural
  6. postcommissural
  7. postcommissure
  8. postcommissures
  9. postcommissurotomy
  10. postcommunion
  11. postcommunions

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