commissure

From Latin commissura (“a joining”).

commissure (plural commissures)

1. The place where two things are joined, especially the line where two parts of an anatomical structure join.
   • 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 14:

     ...that round about the the commissure of all our joints...

commissure f (plural commissures)

1. commissure

• “commissure” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

commissure f

1. plural of commissura

commissūre

1. vocative masculine singular of commissūrus