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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Upon reaching the appropriate level, the axons decussate, entering the ventral horn on the opposite side of the spinal cord from which they entered.

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Axons from the second neuron decussate and ascend to the thalamus along the trigeminothalamic tract.

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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