DECUSSATION

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'Decussation' is used in biological contexts to describe a crossing.^[1]^[1]
Examples include:

★ In the brain

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★ Decussation of the pyramids

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★ Ventral supraoptic decussation

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★ Decussation of optic nerve fibres to combine retinal information from both eyes

★ In phyllotaxis when an opposite pattern of leaves has successive leaf pairs that are perpendicular, it is called decussate.

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