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

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

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

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

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.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

The axons that decussate in the chiasm are from the medial retinae of either eye, and therefore carry information from the peripheral visual field.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

The leaves are in pairs and decussate with one another; while the lower ones have long petioles which bring them almost to the level of the upper pairs, the whole thus forming a beautiful dome.

From The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Sir John Lubbock

In his famous dictionary Samuel Johnson notoriously, and gloriously, defined the word “network” as “any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2016

A cough, said he, is "a convulsion of the lungs, vellicated by some sharp serosity," and a network is "anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections."

From Time Magazine Archive

Anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill

A network is anything reticulated or decussated, with interstices at equal distances between the intersections.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg

Plato says that the "next power to the Supreme God was decussated, or figured in the shape of a cross, on the universe."

From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Wood Besant

This arrangement in successive decussating pairs gives an advantageous distribution on the stem in four vertical ranks.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

The grey matter of the anterior cornua is cut off from the rest by the decussating pyramids and finally disappears.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various