- a joint; seam; suture.
- the joint or face by which one carpel coheres with another.
- a connecting band of nerve fiber, especially one joining the right and left sides of the brain or spinal cord.
- a band of tissue linking two parts or organs, such as the nervous tissue connecting the right and left sides of the brain in vertebrates
- any of various joints between parts, as between the carpels, leaf lobes, etc, of a plant
