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Axons from these second neurons then decussate within the spinal cord and ascend to the brain and enter the thalamus, where each synapses with the third neuron in its respective pathway.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

However, within each eye, the axons projecting from the lateral side of the retina do not decussate.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Upon reaching the appropriate level, the axons decussate, entering the ventral horn on the opposite side of the spinal cord from which they entered.

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The major differences between the two are in the type of information that is relayed to the brain and where the tracts decussate.

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Thus, leaves normally opposite and decussate may, by fusion, become alternate.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

In his famous dictionary Samuel Johnson notoriously, and gloriously, defined the word “network” as “any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2016

A cough, said he, is "a convulsion of the lungs, vellicated by some sharp serosity," and a network is "anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections."

From Time Magazine Archive

Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

It consisted of the last letter of the Samaritan alphabet, the tau or tav in its decussated or most primitive form, and may be described, as it has been sometimes, as a cruciform hammer.

From The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices by Anonymous

A decussated cross, on which St. Andrew was crucified, indicates his day.

From Old Church Lore by Andrews, William

This arrangement in successive decussating pairs gives an advantageous distribution on the stem in four vertical ranks.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

The grey matter of the anterior cornua is cut off from the rest by the decussating pyramids and finally disappears.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various