commissure

About 0.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The joint between two bones.
2. noun A band of nerve tissue connecting the hemispheres of the brain, the two sides of the spinal cord, etc.
3. noun The line where the upper and lower lips or eyelids meet.

Similar words

habenular commissurotomy postcommissure medicommissure junctura commissuroplasty joint communication articular facet joint space

Often followed by

of and is to in between or are which

Word family

commissural commissures