relating to the intersection of the optic nerve fibres at the bottom of the brain
2. cytology
showing or characterized by the development of chiasmata
Examples of 'chiasmatic' in a sentence
chiasmatic
Objective: to study the clinical and hormonal characteristics of patients with giant masses of sellar-chiasmatic area.
K.B. Alimova, Yu.M. Urmanova 2016, 'Clinical and Hormonal Characteristics of Patients with Giant Masses of Sellar-ChiasmaticRegion', Mìžnarodnij Endokrinologìčnij Žurnalhttp://iej.zaslavsky.com.ua/article/view/77821. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The lesion was radiologically indistinguishable from chiasmatic astrocytoma or a germ cell tumor but histopathological features were of a ganglioglioma.
Jalali Rakesh, Deopujari Chandrashekar, Bhutani Ritu, Suhas U, Rajasekharan Preetha,Kane Shubdha, Gupta Tejpal 2008, 'Suprasellar ganglioglioma with unusual diffuse involvement of the entire optico-chiasmalhypothalamic pathway', Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeuticshttp://www.cancerjournal.net/article.asp?issn=0973-1482;year=2008;volume=4;issue=3;spage=140;epage=143;aulast=Jalali. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The meiotic tetravalent might be due to minute reciprocal translocations or to non-chiasmatic ectopic pairing between terminal repetitive sequences.
Gruber Simone, Zina Juliana, Narimatsu Hideki, Haddad Célio Fernando, Kasahara Sanae 2012, 'Comparative karyotype analysis and chromosome evolution in the genus Aplastodiscus(Cophomantini, Hylinae, Hylidae)', BMC Geneticshttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/13/28. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The magnetic resonance image showed an expansible lesion in the thalamic, hypothalamic, and chiasmatic regions, which showed ring enhancement.
Emerson L. Gasparetto, Arnolfo de Carvalho Neto, James Alberton, Taisa Davaus, MaraAlbonei D. Pianovski, Érica Yamauchi, Luiz F. Bleggi Torres 2005, 'Histoplasmoma como lesão isolada do sistema nervoso central em paciente imunocompetenteHistoplasmoma as isolated central nervous system lesion in an immunocompetent patient',Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatriahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2005000400027. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)