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redecussate en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + decussate.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To decussate again; to cross back.
   • If Ferrier's recent contradition of Brown-Séquard's theorem stands, then we are in the same quandary as before with regard to the alternative stated by Wernicke, that if the sensory paths all decussate in the oblongata, they must redecussate twice in the cord, if the facts of capsular and spinal hemianæsthesia are to be harmonized. 1884, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record - Volume 26, page 424:
   • Some of the fibres of the crossed pyramid redecussate (in lower animals) and enter the pyramidal tract of the side on which they started. 1897, Charles Loomis Dana, Text-book of Nervous Diseases:
   • However, many nonmammalian vertebrates possess excellent stereopsis and have completely crossed optic tracts. In these species, optic tract fibers or higher-order pathways redecussate in commissures other than the optic chiasm, so that ultimately visual centers do receive information from both eyes. 1988, Jelle Atema, Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper, William N. Tavolga, Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals, →ISBN, page 876:

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