Word Meanings - POSTCOMMISSURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A transverse commisure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commisure. B. G. Wilder.

Related words: (words related to POSTCOMMISSURE)

• THIRD
  The third tone of the scale; the mediant. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided. 2. The sixtieth part of a second of time.
• THIRDLY
  In the third place. Bacon.
• TRANSVERSELY
  In a transverse manner.
• BRAIN
  The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord,
• CEREBRALISM
  The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.
• POSTERIORLY
  Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
• BRAINSICKLY
  In a brainsick manner.
• THIRDINGS
  The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.
• WILDERNESS
  1. A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind. The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply. Waller. 2. A disorderly or
• THIRD-PENNY
  A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.
• THIRD RAIL
  The third rail used in the third-rail system. An electric railway using such a rail.
• WILDER
  To bewilder; to perplex. Long lost and wildered in the maze of fate. Pope. Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains, frozen as they rose. Bryant. (more info) bewildered, villa to bewilder; cf. AS. wildor a wild animal. See
• BRAINSICK
  Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. -- Brain"sick*ness, n.
• BRAINED
  Supplied with brains. If th' other two be brained like us. Shak.
• POSTERIORITY
  The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.
• VENTRICLE
  A cavity, or one of the cavities, of an organ, as of the larynx or the brain; specifically, the posterior chamber, or one of the two posterior chambers, of the heart, which receives the blood from the auricle and forces it out from the heart. See
• WILDERMENT
  The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment. And snatched her breathless from beneath This wilderment of wreck and death. Moore.
• THIRD-BOROUGH
  An under constable. Shak. Johnson.
• POSTERIORS
  The hinder parts, as of an animal's body. Swift.
• BRAINISH
  Hot-headed; furious. Shak.
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• SICK-BRAINED
  Disordered in the brain.
• INTERTRANSVERSE
  Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.
• SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED
  Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• FAT-BRAINED
  Dull of apprehension.
• 'TWIXT-BRAIN
  The thalamen
• MADBRAINED
  Disordered in mind; hot-headed. Shak.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• BEWILDER
  To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search. Addison. Syn. -- To perplex; puzzle; entangle; confuse; confound;
• BEWILDERING
  Causing bewilderment or great perplexity; as, bewildering difficulties. -- Be*wil"der*ing*ly, adv.
• COCK-BRAINED
  Giddy; rash. Milton.
• MIDBRAIN
  The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• CLAY-BRAINED
  Stupid. Shak.