FISSURE
\fˈɪʃə], \fˈɪʃə], \f_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə]\
Definitions of FISSURE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.
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To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.
By Oddity Software
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A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.
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To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. A furrow, cleft, or slit; for the normal anatomical fissures see fissura, and for most of the brain fissures, sulcus. 2. In dentistry a break or fault in the enamel of a tooth.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A cleft; a narrow chasm or opening; a deep narrow sulcus or depression, dividing the anterior and middle lobes of the cerebrum on each side.
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To cleave; to crack or fracture.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A cleft, deep groove, or furrow dividing an organ into lobes, or sub-dividing and separating certain areas of the lobes.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Fissure has various acceptations: 1. A fracture, Catag'ma fissu'ra, in which the bone is cracked, not separated, as in fracture; 2. A narrow, long, and superficial solution of continuity, around the external openings of the mucous membranes. A sort of chap-( F.) Gercure-observed on the hands, particularly on the callous hands, of workmen, in certain mechanical employments; 3. Small chapped ulcerations, sometimes noticed in young children, owing to the contact of the faeces and urine with the fine, delicate skin of the thighs, nates, and genital organs; 4. Clefts of a more or less deep nature, occurring on the genital organs in the vicinity of the anus, in those labouring under syphilis. These are usually called rhagades. See Monster
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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