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What is the noun for commissure?

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commissure
  1. The place where two things are joined, especially the line where two parts of an anatomical structure join.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The oral commissure prosthesis is used to prevent microstomia when trauma involving the corners of the mouth or circumoral tissue has occurred. ”
      “The column of the fornix has been divided a short distance above the anterior commissure.”
      “The latter intersects various projection and commissural fibers, including those crossing to the opposite hemisphere in the anterior commissure.”
commissuroplasty
  1. (surgery) surgical correction of a deformity to a commissure
commissurotomy
  1. (medicine) The surgical division of a commissure or similar structure.
commissuroplasties
  1. plural of commissuroplasty
commissurotomies
  1. plural of commissurotomy
commissures
  1. plural of commissure
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Maximum width at hinge line, with lateral commissures almost perpendicular.”
      “These commissures are the anterior commissure, the fornix, and the corpus callosum, the two latter being peculiar to Mammalia.”
      “Leading from each of the cerebral ganglia are cerebropedal commissures, nerve trunks, that terminate at the two adjacent cerebropedal ganglia in the foot.”
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