| 单词 | anterior commissure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanterior commissure anterior commissure n. [after scientific Latin commissura anterior (1767 in the source translated in quot. 1779), itself after French commissure antérieure ( J. Lieutaud Essais Anatomiques (1742) 392)] Anatomy and Zoology a bundle of nerve fibres located anterior to the third ventricle, connecting the left and right cerebral hemispheres, esp. the temporal lobes. ΚΠ 1779 tr. A. von Haller First Lines Physiol. Index 509/2 The anterior commissure. 1784 Syst. Anat. II. vi. i. 48 We observe a large, white, short, medullary rope stretched transversely between the two hemispheres, and commonly called the anterior commissure of the cerebrum. 1892 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. (ed. 2) I. iii. 488 There is also degeneration of the fibres of the anterior commissure. 1992 Boston Herald 1 Aug. 11/4 In autopsy studies they found a brain structure called the anterior commissure to be 34 percent larger in homosexual males than in heterosexual males. 2009 Psychol. Sci. 20 76/1 Anatomical and functional images consisted of 34 contiguous slices parallel to the anterior commissure–posterior commissure plane. < as lemmas |
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