fissure

fissure
Synonyms and related words:
abysm, abyss, amputate, arachnoid, arbor vitae, archipallium, arroyo, ax, between brain, bisect, box canyon, brain stem, breach, break, break open, break up, breakage, broach, burst, bust, butcher, caesura, canyon, carve, cavity, cerebellar hemispheres, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, cerebrospinal fluid, cerebrum, cessation, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chip, chop, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, come apart, come unstuck, convolution, corpus callosum, corpus striatum, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cut open, cwm, defile, dell, dichotomize, diencephalon, dike, disintegrate, dispart, dissever, ditch, divaricate, divide, donga, draw, dura mater, endbrain, excavation, excise, exfoliate, fall to pieces, fault, flaw, flume, fly open, folia, forebrain, fornix, fracture, frontal lobe, furrow, gap, gape, gash, give away, give way, glial cells, globus pallidus, gorge, gray matter, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gyrus, hack, halve, hew, hiatus, hindbrain, hippocampus, hole, hypothalamus, incise, incision, interim, intermission, interruption, interval, jigsaw, joint, kloof, lacuna, lance, lay open, leak, lenticular nucleus, letup, limbic lobe, little brain, lobe, lull, mantle, medulla oblongata, meninges, mesencephalon, metencephalon, midbrain, moat, myelencephalon, neopallium, notch, nullah, occipital lobe, ope, open, open up, opening, optic chiasm, pallium, pare, parietal lobe, part, pass, passage, pause, pia mater, pineal body, pituitary body, pons, prune, ravine, rend, rent, reticular system, rhombencephalon, rift, rime, rip, rive, rupture, saw, scale, schism, scissor, scissure, seam, separate, sever, slash, slice, slit, slot, snap, snip, splinter, split, spread, spread out, spring a leak, spring open, start, subthalamus, sunder, suspension, swing open, tap, tear, tear open, telencephalon, temporal lobe, thalamus, throw open, trench, valley, ventricle, vermis, void, wadi, white matter, whittle

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  • fissure — [ fisyr ] n. f. • 1314, rare av. XVIIIe; lat. fissura, de fissus, p. p. de findere « fendre » ♦ Petite fente. ⇒ cassure, crevasse, scissure. Fissure d un mur, d une cloison. ⇒ lézarde. « Un encadrement que le temps avait rayé par des fissures… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Fissure — Fis sure, n. [L. fissura, fr. findere, fissum, to cleave, split; akin to E. bite: cf. F. fissure.] A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. [1913 Webster] {Cerebral fissures} (Anat.), the furrows …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • fissure — c.1400, from O.Fr. fissure (13c.) and directly from L. fissura a cleft, from root of findere to split, cleave, from PIE *bhi n d , from root *bheid to split (Cf. Skt. bhinadmi I cleave, O.H.G. bizzan to bite, O.E. bita a piece bitten off, mo …   Etymology dictionary

  • fissure — [fish′ər] n. [ME < OFr < L fissura < fissus: see FISSION] 1. a long, narrow, deep cleft or crack 2. a dividing or breaking into parts 3. Anat. a groove between lobes or parts of an organ, as in the brain 4. Med. a break or ulceration… …   English World dictionary

  • Fissure — Fis sure, v. t. To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fissure — Fissure. См. Волосная трещина. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) …   Словарь металлургических терминов

  • fissure — index break (fracture), force (break), part (separate), rift (gap), sever …   Law dictionary

  • fissure — Crack, cleft, crevasse, crevice, cranny, chink Analogous words: *break, gap: *breach, split, rent, rupture, rift …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • fissure — ► NOUN ▪ a long, narrow crack. ► VERB ▪ split; crack. ORIGIN Latin fissura, from findere to split …   English terms dictionary

  • Fissure — In anatomy, fissure (Latin fissura , Plural fissurae ) is a groove, natural division, deep furrow, cleft, or tear in various parts of the body.AnatomyVarious types of anatomical fissure are:Brain* Fissure of Bichat : found below the corpus… …   Wikipedia

  • fissure — (fi ssu r ) s. f. 1°   Petite fente, crevasse. Les fissures d un mur, d un vase, d un terrain. La lumière pénétrait par une fissure de la cloison.    Fig. •   Je sais que, malgré les barrières immenses qu on entasse sans cesse autour de moi, on… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

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