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.
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
However, within each eye, the axons projecting from the lateral side of the retina do not decussate.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
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
A Melaleuca with very small decussate leaves, a tree about twenty-five feet high, was growing on the scrubby ridges.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt
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 Noah Webster
A decussated cross, on which St. Andrew was crucified, indicates his day.
From Old Church Lore by William Andrews
Network is "any thing reticulated or decussated at equal distances."
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
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
