anatomy a chiasm is the spot where two structures cross, forming an X-shape (from Greek letter χ, Chi). Examples of chiasms are: A tendinous chiasm,...

project by Emileigh Rohn Chiasm (anatomy), an X-shaped structure produced by the crossing over of the fibers, with the prefix chiasm- means cross examples...

denotes a crossing of the body midline (e.g., in some invertebrates, see Chiasm (anatomy)). A midline crossing of nerves inside the brain is called a decussation...

The eleventh season of the American television medical drama Grey's Anatomy premiered on September 25, 2014, in the United States on the American Broadcasting...

[citation needed] Sympathetic ganglion Ganglion cyst Nervous system Neuron Chiasm "Glossary G". UNSW Embryology. Archived from the original on 14 December...

optic chiasm (see diagram above) will affect the areas of vision loss. Damage to the optic nerve that is anterior, or in front of the optic chiasm (toward...

optic nerves from the two eyes come together at a point called the optic chiasm, and half of the fibres from each nerve split off to join the other. The...

Compression of the optic chiasm is associated with pituitary adenoma, Craniopharyngioma, Meningioma etc. A lesion involving complete optic chiasm, which disrupts...

the brain, as opposed to the heart as Aristotle had theorized. The optic chiasm, which is crucial to the visual system, was discovered around 100 C.E. by...

mesencephalon: choroid plexus of the lateral ventricle and third ventricle optic chiasm and optic tract (genu, posterior limb, and retrolentiform part of) internal...

small subarachnoid cistern related to the optic chiasm. The cistern is situated superior to the optic chiasm, and inferior to the rostrum of corpus callosum...

compression of the optic chiasm, which lies on top of the pituitary, enveloping the pituitary stalk. Compression of the optic chiasm can lead to bitemporal...

Ramón y Cajal (1898). According to this theory, the function of the optic chiasm is to repair the retinal field image on the visual cortex. The pupil in...

of the other eye. Fibers from the optic nerves cross over in the optic chiasm with some fibers passing to the contralateral optic nerve tract. This is...

role in the optic nerve tract. This is shown in (figure 4.) with the optic chiasm, which takes the nerve from the right eye to the left hemisphere and the...

the temporal lobes of either side. Anteriorly, it extends to the optic chiasm. The cistern communicates superiorly with the chiasmatic cistern, and inferiorly...

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axon that extends into the brain. These axons form the optic nerve, optic chiasm, and optic tract. A small percentage of retinal ganglion cells contribute...

intermediate phalanges of the four fingers. These tendons have a split (Camper's Chiasm) at the end of them through which the tendons of flexor digitorum profundus...

Anatomy Flash Cards Tillotson, Joanne. McCann, Stephanie. Kaplan's Medical Flashcards. April 2, 2013. "Optic Chiasma." Optic Chiasm Function, Anatomy...

hypothalamus forming the floor of the third ventricle situated between the optic chiasm, and the mammillary bodies. The tuberal region is one of the three regions...

(medial portion of) the anterior perforated substance to supply the optic chiasm, (anterior nucleus, preoptic area, and supraoptic nucleus of the) hypothalamus...

position of the gastrointestinal tract, the liver, and the pancreas Optic chiasm Chiasm of the trochlear nerve Non-crossed olfactory tract Aurofacial asymmetry...

each other, in a spot above the medial malleolus, the crural tendinous chiasm. It passes through the tarsal tunnel. It passes obliquely forward and lateralward...

crossings Palpebral commissure (of the eye) Commissure Chiasm Contralateral brain Fissure (anatomy) Jaeger, Edmund C. (1959). A source-book of biological...

diabetes insipidus). The diameter of the pituitary stalk at the level of optic chiasm is 3.3 mm, and at the pituitary gland insertion site is measured at 1.9...

canal is placed at either lateral end of the chiasmatic sulcus. The optic chiasm is situated superior and quite posterior to the chiasmatic groove (and not...

Thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer Hypogonadism Compression of the optic chiasm by the growth of pituitary adenoma leading to visual problems About 98%...

brainstem, spinal cord, and nerves. Neuroanatomy, like other aspects of anatomy, uses specific terminology to describe anatomical structures. This terminology...

continuation of the optic nerve that relays information from the optic chiasm to the ipsilateral lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), pretectal nuclei, and...