postcommissure

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English

Etymology

post- +‎ commissure

Noun

postcommissure (plural postcommissures)

  1. (anatomy) A transverse commissure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commissure.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of B. G. Wilder to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for postcommissure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)