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decussate

[dih-kuhs-eyt, -it, dih-kuhs-eyt, dek-uh-seyt] / dɪˈkʌs eɪt, -ɪt, dɪˈkʌs eɪt, ˈdɛk əˌseɪt /
VERB
cross; intersect
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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

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

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

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

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

The remaining fibres pass down as the direct pyramidal tract, and decussate in the cord near their termination.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

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

A net is a reticulated fabric, decussated at regular intervals.

From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock

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

From Old Church Lore by William Andrews

In his Dictionary he defined "network" as "anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances with interstices between the intersections."

From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

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 Asa Gray

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




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