postcommissure
English edit
Etymology edit
post- + commissure
Noun edit
postcommissure (plural postcommissures)
- (anatomy) A transverse commissure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commissure.
- 1893, Burt Green Wilder, Physiology Practicums:
- By gently moving its caudal end , its ventro-cephalic angle will be found to be continuous with the mesocælian roof by a curved and corrugated lamina, the POSTCOMMISSURE
References edit
“postcommissure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.