Šimon František
a Department of Classical Languages , P. J. Šafárik University , Košice , Slovakia.
J Hist Neurosci. 2018 Jan-Mar;27(1):101-105. doi: 10.1080/0964704X.2017.1285512. Epub 2017 Feb 28.
There is no consensus regarding the origin of the term decussatio pyramidum. Various anatomists of the past are honored by modern scholars, for example, Vieussens, Reil, and Collins. However, contralateral effects of brain lesions were already mentioned in Hippocratic treatises. Aretaeus of Cappadocia assumed that the anatomical reason for this phenomenon is the interchange of the nerves and called it chiasmos. This opinion was discussed in modern times and the anatomists used the term decussatio nervorum. The authorship of the first demonstration of decussatio pyramidum is given to Mistichelli (1709) and Petit (1710), but neither the term decussatio nor any of its vernacular forms are present in their work. A milestone in the history of the term is the Mémoire of Gall and Spurzheim presented to the Institut de France in 1808. In the French printed form of the Mémoire (1809), the word combination décussation des pyramides was used for the first time in anatomical literature.
关于“锥体交叉”这一术语的起源尚无定论。过去的各位解剖学家受到现代学者的敬重，例如维厄桑斯、赖尔和柯林斯。然而，希波克拉底的论著中已经提及脑部病变的对侧效应。卡帕多西亚的阿雷泰乌斯认为这种现象的解剖学原因是神经的交叉，并将其称为交叉。这一观点在现代得到了讨论，解剖学家们使用了“神经交叉”这一术语。首次证明锥体交叉的功劳归于米斯蒂凯利（1709年）和佩蒂（1710年），但他们的著作中既没有“交叉”这个术语，也没有其任何方言形式。该术语历史上的一个里程碑是1808年加尔和施普尔茨海姆提交给法兰西学院的论文。在该论文的法语印刷版（1809年）中，“锥体交叉”这个词组首次在解剖学文献中被使用。
