The leaves on this plant are arranged in pairs opposite one another, with successive pairs at right angles to each other ( "decussate") along the red stem. From Wordnik.com. [Wikibooks - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Thus, leaves normally opposite and decussate may, by fusion, become alternate. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Cancellate: cross-barred: latticed: with longitudinal lines decussate by transverse lines. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
There are certain other nervous cords which decussate, are attached (to the vertebrae?), and are extended from both sides of them. From Wordnik.com. [On The Articulations] Reference
The leaves of this plant are naturally rectiserial and decussate, but, in the twisted stem the leaves were curviserial, and arranged according to the 5/13 plan. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The simplest illustration of this arrangement is seen in the case of decussate leaves, where those organs are placed in pairs, and the pairs cross one another at right angles. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Now, referring to the ordinary notation of alternate leaves, we shall have the first leaf covered by the fifth, with two turns of the spiral; since decussate leaves result from two conjugate lines, the formula will be necessarily 2/5. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Some of the nerves decussate (cross) at the optic chiasm, but some of them don't. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
In the teasels this screw-arrangement has disappeared, and has been replaced by a decussate grouping. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
The sensations then pass to the medulla oblongata at the back of the head, where the fibres decussate. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
The xylem in all gnetophytes contains both trachieds and vessel cells, and all gnetophytes have decussate leaves. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Their paths decussate several times over the years, and Herenda says the two have stayed friends for more than 20 years. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
After crossing the raphé, where they decussate with those from the opposite side, they turn upward to form the lateral lemniscus. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves] Reference
Its fibers pass backward and medialward through the orbit and optic foramen to the optic commissure where they partially decussate. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 5b. The Optic Nerve] Reference
They arise from the cells of the gracile and cuneate nuclei, and passing forward through the formatio reticularis, decussate in the middle line. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon] Reference
The twisted parents gave as many as 41\% twisted children, but the decussate atavists gave even somewhat more, viz., 44\%, while the ternate specimens gave 37\%. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
When the nerves partially decussate across the optic chiasm, the sensory input from the left half of the visual field combines and continues into the right hemisphere. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The fibres of the spinal cord, before entering this portion of the brain, decussate, those from the right side crossing to the left, and those from the left crossing to the right side. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
On reaching the level of the inferior colliculus the dorsal fibers which overlie the superior peduncle decussate in the velum medullare anterius with similar fibers of the opposite side. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves] Reference
Some fibers do not decussate but pass down in the ventral longitudinal bundle of the same side on which they arise unless possibly they come from the opposite colliculus over the aqueduct. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves] Reference
The leaves are in pairs and decussate with one another; while the lower ones have long petioles which bring them almost to the level of the upper pairs, the whole thus forming a beautiful dome. From Wordnik.com. [The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In] Reference
Opposite - leaf attachments paired at each node; decussate if, as typical, each successive pair is rotated 90° going along the stem; or distichous if not rotated, but two-ranked (in the same plane). From Wordnik.com. [Wikibooks - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Some enter by the superficial white layer (stratum zonale), others appear to dip down into the gray cap (stratum cinereum) while others probably decussate across the midline to the opposite colliculus. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves] Reference
Likewise if you wanted to move your left arm, the signal would leave your right hemisphere's motor cortex, decussate at the level of the medulla, and then continue in the left side of your spinal cord. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
But … whoever wrote this poem (cancer-patient child, adult, professed illustrator or whoever) has captured some ideas that decussate my mind while I was going through treatment and still interbreed my mind now. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
As with opposite leaves, successive whorls may or may not be decussate, rotated by half the angle between the leaves in the whorl (i.e., successive whorls of three rotated 60°, whorls of four rotated 45°, etc). From Wordnik.com. [Wikibooks - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Curving forward, they decussate in the middle line with the corresponding fibers of the opposite side, and run upward immediately behind the cerebrospinal fibers, as a flattened band, named the lemniscus or fillet. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon] Reference
When these pyramidal fibers are traced downward it is found that some two-thirds or more of them leave the pyramids in successive bundles, and decussate in the anterior median fissure, forming what is termed the pyramidal decussation. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon] Reference
There is considerable variation in the extent to which decussation takes place in the medulla oblongata; about two-thirds or three-fourths of the fibers usually decussate in the medulla oblongata and the remainder in the medulla spinalis. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 1F. Pathways from the Brain to the Spinal Cord] Reference
We show that the pathway associated with successive cytokinesis (cytoplasm is partitioned after each meiotic division) is restricted to wall formation mediated by centrifugally developing cell plates, and tetragonal (or decussate, T-shaped, linear) tetrads. From Wordnik.com. [Seeds Aside] Reference
The dispute, whether the nerves decussate or cross each other before they leave the cavities of the skull or spine, seems to be decided in the affirmative by comparative anatomy; as the optic nerves of some fish have been shewn evidently to cross each other; as seen by Haller, Elem. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Nerves decussate, iii. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Migraine -- artery -- decussate -- wonder what this other fool says. From Wordnik.com. [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference
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