commissure

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
20
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈkɒm.ɪs.jʊə/
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/ˈkɒm.ɪs.jʊə/ · /ˈkɑm.əˌʃʊɹ/

Definition of commissure

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The joint between two bones.
    “...that round about the commissure of all our joints...”
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noun

  1. The joint between two bones.
    “...that round about the commissure of all our joints...”
  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.
    “There is a third inner eyelid, highly developed and of beautiful mechanism: this is the nictitating membrane, or "winker" (nictito, I wink), a delicate, elastic, translucent, pearly-white fold of the conjunctiva. While the other lids move vertically and have a horizontal commissure, the winker sweeps horizontally or obliquely across the ball, from the side next the beak to the opposite.”

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Etymology

From Latin commissura (“a joining or connecting together”), from commissus (passive perfect participle of committo (“to join, to connect”)) + -ura.

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