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circumcommissural

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cir-cum-com-mis-sur-al
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Surrounding a commissure

Example Sentences

  • "In support of a functional dichotomy between the dorsolateral/circumcommissural core (mediating cocaine reward and seeking at the cost of prosocial interaction) versus the medial shell (mediating prosocial interaction at the cost of drug seeking), lesions of the medial shell (with the lesions reaching well into the medial aspects of the accumbens corridor) but not the circumcommissural/dorsal core were shown to disrupt maternal behavior, that is, pup retrieval ( Li and Fleming, 2003 )."

Etymology

From circum- + commissural.

Word Breakdown

Questions

What does circumcommissural mean?
Surrounding a commissure
Where does circumcommissural come from?
From circum- + commissural.

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