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precommissural

precommissural adjective: anterior to a commissure.

Adjective

precommissural (not comparable)

  1. anterior 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 precommissural

From pre- + commissural.

Questions about precommissural

What does precommissural mean?
Precommissural means anterior to a commissure.
What part of speech is precommissural?
Precommissural is an adjective.

Words near precommissural in the dictionary

  1. precombusted
  2. precombustion
  3. precome
  4. precommercial
  5. precommissioning
  6. precommissural
  7. precommissure
  8. precommit
  9. precommitment
  10. precommitments
  11. precommits

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