Chiasm Definition

kīazəm
chiasms
noun
chiasms

Chiasma.

Webster's New World

Chiasmus.

Webster's New World

Alternative form of chiasma.

Wiktionary

Alternative form of chiasmus.

Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Chiasm

Noun

Singular:
chiasm
Plural:
chiasms

Origin of Chiasm

  • Latin; in sense 1, from chiasma, from Ancient Greek χίασμα (khiasma); in sense 2, from chiasmus, from Ancient Greek χιασμός (khiasmos "crossing, diagonal arrangement")

    From Wiktionary

Chiasm Sentence Examples

  • In an area called the Optic chiasm, the nerves join and then separate.

  • More commonly it is also called an optic chiasm glioma.

  • The joined up path that signals travel down from retina to optic nerve then optic chiasm then occipital lobe is called the visual pathway.

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Words Starting With

CCHCHI

Words Ending With

MSMASM

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chiasm

Words Starting With C and Ending With M

Starts With C & Ends With MStarts With CH & Ends With MStarts With C & Ends With SM

Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With C6 Letter Words Ending With M