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com|mis|sure
com|mis|sure «KOM uh shur», noun.
1. Anatomy. any one of the nerve fibers connecting corresponding parts of the brain or spinal cord.
2. the line or surface along which two parts touch each other or form a connection; joint; seam; junction.
3. Botany. the joint or face by which one carpel coheres with another.
[< Latin commissūra a joining < committere; see etym. under commit (Cf.commit)]

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