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UK
/fˈɪʃɐ/
]
[ US /ˈfɪʃɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪʃɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a long narrow opening
- (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes
- a long narrow depression in a surface
VERB
- break into fissures or fine cracks
How To Use fissure In A Sentence
- Flat lawns are formed into an abstract pattern that recalls tectonic fractures and fissures in the earth's surface, their edges defined by dark grey concrete retaining walls.
- When the eyelids are open, an elliptical space, the palpebral fissure (rima palpebrarum), is left between their margins, the angles of which correspond to the junctions of the upper and lower eyelids, and are called the palpebral commissures or canthi. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 3. The Accessory Organs of the Eye
- The technique was to go slowly back and forth parallel to the shore on the basalt reef and locate any fissure veins containing copper or other minerals.
- Children with fissure sealants still need to brush their teeth with fluoride toothpaste.
- As we progressed we found ourselves climbing down steeper and higher dry waterfalls, most of which provided a fissure, a runnel, a pleat of rock or an overhanging crag that allowed a relatively easy descent. Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 2
- The lips of the choroidal fissure, containing the hyaloid vessels, are fused or nearly so.
- There are over 100 surface pumps that remove water from aquifers, geologic units where water is stored between grains of sand or in rock fissures.
- These year come such all the time, accompany anal fissure.
- It opens so many fissures. Times, Sunday Times
- Persistent elevation in sphincter tone requires more forceful evacuation of stool, resulting in repeated trauma to the fissure.