commissures

Meaning of commissures

plural noun
  1. the joint between two bones.
  2. a band of nerve tissue connecting the hemispheres of the brain, the two sides of the spinal cord, etc.
  3. the line where the upper and lower lips or eyelids meet.

late Middle English: from Latin commissura ‘junction’, from committere ‘join’ (see commit).

Information about commissures

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of commissures is: commissure.
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Hyphenation of commissures

com-mis-sures

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • commissures is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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