an alternate plural form of chiasma, sometimes used in technical literature (though less common than chiasmata).
A Latin-influenced plural of chiasma, following the pattern of Latin masculine nouns ending in -a that pluralize in -i.
This plural shows how scientific terminology lives between Greek, Latin, and English—scholars sometimes used 'chiasmi' in older texts, but modern science prefers 'chiasmata' to stay consistent!
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