a joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.-the point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.-a collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.-the line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.