What does commissure mean?
Commissure means (anatomy) The joint between two bones..
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/ˈkɒm.ɪs.jʊə/ · noun
(anatomy) The joint between two bones..
...that round about the commissure of all our joints...
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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Commissure means (anatomy) The joint between two bones..
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...that round about the commissure of all our joints...
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