decussate

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Axons from these second neurons then decussate within the spinal cord and ascend to the brain and enter the thalamus, where each synapses with the third neuron in its respective pathway.

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However, within each eye, the axons projecting from the lateral side of the retina do not decussate.

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The major differences between the two are in the type of information that is relayed to the brain and where the tracts decussate.

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These axons do not decussate in the medulla.

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These Rainbows did not Just decussate one another at right Angles; there was some 6 or 7 degrees difference.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry