Usually means: Crossing over point in chromosomes.
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  1. chiasma: Merriam-Webster
  2. chiasma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chiasma: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chiasma: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chiasma: Vocabulary.com
  6. chiasma: Wordnik
  7. chiasma: Wiktionary
  8. chiasma: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chiasma: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. chiasma: Dictionary.com
  11. Chiasma (genetics), Chiasma: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Chiasma: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. chiasma: Rhymezone
  14. Chiasma: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. chiasma: FreeDictionary.org
  16. chiasma: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. chiasma: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chiasma: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. chiasma: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Chiasma: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  6. chiasma: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  8. chiasma: Medical dictionary

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chiasma)

noun:  (anatomy) A crossing of two nerves, ligaments etc.
noun:  (genetics, cytology) The contact point between the two chromatids of a chromosome during meiosis.

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