commissure noun. ['kɒmɪsjʊǝ] LME.
[Latin commissura, from commiss-: see COMMISSION noun, -URE.]
1. gen. A juncture, a seam. LME.

2. A joint between two bones; esp. a suture. Now rare or obsolete. M16.

3. The line or point where lips or eyelids meet. M18.

4. Any of several bundles of nerve tissue which connect the two sides of the central nervous system in the brain or spinal cord. E19.

5. Botany. The line of junction of the cohering faces of two carpels (in umbellifers). M19.

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