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  • verb Present participle of decussate.

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Examples

  • In one flower of this nature the segments of the perianth were arranged in decussating pairs, and the four stamens were united by their filaments so as to form two pairs.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • The prevalent idea that a lesion of one hemisphere produces a paralysis upon the opposite side of the body alone is no longer tenable, for each hemisphere is connected with both sides of the body by motor tracts, the larger of the motor tracts decussating and the smaller not decussating in the medulla.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 Various

  • If one of these be examined with a high power of the microscope, it will be found to be composed of a finely reticular structure, made up of very slender transparent fibers, decussating obliquely; and coalescing at the points of intersection; these fibers are composed of fine fibrils identical with those of white connective tissue.

    II. Osteology. 2. Bone 1918

  • According to Held fibers from the posterior commissure can be traced into the posterior longitudinal bundle, and according to the same author many of the descending fibers arise in the superior colliculus, and, after decussating in the middle line, end in the motor nuclei of the pons and medulla oblongata.

    IX. Neurology. 4b. The Mid-brain or Mesencephalon 1918

  • The Procerus (Pyramidalis nasi) is a small pyramidal slip arising by tendinous fibers from the fascia covering the lower part of the nasal bone and upper part of the lateral nasal cartilage; it is inserted into the skin over the lower part of the forehead between the two eyebrows, its fibers decussating with those of the Frontalis.

    IV. Myology. 4c. The Muscles of the Nose 1918

  • Most of its fibers are, however, directed downward and form a bundle, the fasciculus retroflexus of Meynert, which passes medial to the red nucleus, and, after decussating with the corresponding fasciculus of the opposite side, ends in the interpeduncular ganglion.

    IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon 1918

  • Others after decussating, terminate either directly or indirectly in the motor nuclei of the trigeminal, abducent, facial, and hypoglossal nerves; but most of them are carried through the pons, and at its lower surface are collected into the pyramids of the medulla.

    IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon 1918

  • Efferent fibers of tuberculum acusticum, forming the striae medullares, with 6’, their direct bundle going to the superior olivary nucleus of the same side; 6’’, their decussating bundles going to the superior olivary nucleus of the opposite side.

    IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves 1918

  • The superficial part, consisting principally of the decussating fibers, brings the lips together and also protrudes them forward.

    IV. Myology. 4d. The Muscles of the Mouth 1918

  • It serves in this way to connect the two temporal lobes, but it also contains decussating fibers from the olfactory tracts.

    IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon 1918

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