commissure

English

Etymology

From Latin commissura (“a joining”).

Noun

commissure (plural commissures)

1. The place where two things are joined, especially the line where two parts of an anatomical structure join.
   • 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 14:

     ...that round about the the commissure of all our joints...

Derived terms

• anterior commissure
• commissural
• commissuroplasty
• commissurotomy
• gray commissure
• medicommissure
• postcommissure
• precommissure

 

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French

Noun

commissure f (plural commissures)

1. commissure

Further reading

• “commissure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

commissure f

1. plural of commissura

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) commissūre

1. vocative masculine singular of commissūrus