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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the German physician Gasserius (1505-77): as, the Gasserian ganglion, often mistakenly called the Casserian. See ganglion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion.
  • adjective (Anat.) a large ganglion, at the root of the trigeminal, or fifth cranial, nerve.

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