Medical Definition of Dichasium
1. A cymose inflorescence with opposite branching below the flower which terminates each axis. Compare: monochasium. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dichasium
Literary usage of Dichasium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of General Botany by Wilhelm Julius Behrens (1885)
"The "Dichotomous Cyme" or dichasium (Fig. 120) is one of the most regular forms
of inflorescence. The primary axis terminates suddenly in a flower; ..."
2. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1905)
"... in each successive forking, the branch which continues to develop is on the
same side as the previous one, the other branch aborts; False ~, = dichasium ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The inflorescence is therefore a contracted dichasium, the flowers being sessile,
or nearly so, and the clusters arc called ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... has the form of a contracted dichasium, and receives the name of ... expansion is
thus centrifugal The inflorescence U therefore a contracted dichasium, ..."
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