decussate

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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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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 axons that decussate in the chiasm are from the medial retinae of either eye, and therefore carry information from the peripheral visual field.

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These axons do not decussate in the medulla.

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These Rainbows did not Just decussate one another at right Angles; there was some 6 or 7 degrees difference.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry