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n. - A bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord.

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  • Normally, both cerebral hemispheres are linked through the cerebral commissure, which is built up of hundreds of millions of nerve fibers.
  • If any thought by flight to escape, he made his head to fly in pieces by the lamboidal commissure, which is a seam in the hinder part of the skull.
  • No. 1 gashes a line from the root of the hair to the commissure of the nose: No. 2 has
  • - MENIn men, the commissure is smaller than it is in women, even though men's brains are, on average, larger than women's. ..
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