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redecussate

redecussate verb: to decussate again; to cross back.

Verb

redecussate (third-person singular simple present redecussates, present participle redecussating, simple past and past participle redecussated)

  1. (intransitive) To decussate again; to cross back.
    • If Ferrier's recent contradition of Brown-Séquard's theorem stands, then we are in the same quandary as before with regard to the alternative stated by Wernicke, that if the sensory paths all decussate in the oblongata, they must redecussate twice in the cord, if the facts of capsular and spinal...1884, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record - Volume 26, page 424
    • Some of the fibres of the crossed pyramid redecussate (in lower animals) and enter the pyramidal tract of the side on which they started.1897, Charles Loomis Dana, Text-book of Nervous Diseases

Forms of redecussate

third-person singular presentredecussates
present participleredecussating
past participleredecussated
pastredecussated

Origin of redecussate

From re- + decussate.

Questions about redecussate

What does redecussate mean?
Redecussate means to decussate again; to cross back.
What part of speech is redecussate?
Redecussate is a verb.
What is the past tense of redecussate?
The past tense of redecussate is redecussated.

Words near redecussate in the dictionary

  1. redecreasing
  2. redecree
  3. redecreed
  4. redecreeing
  5. redecrees
  6. redecussate
  7. redecussated
  8. redecussates
  9. redecussating
  10. rededicate
  11. rededicated

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