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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

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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.
Part of the posterior rhinal fissure is always present in the 'incisura temporalis,' and sometimes, especially in some of the non-European races, the whole of the posterior rhinal fissure is retained in that typical form which we find in the anthropoid apes. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
The plants were growing from several fissures in the mafic bedrock that underlies the creek.
Harry's hair and moustache were snow-white but the lean, fissured face, the pipe and alert manner were distinctive.
The word that comes to mind is exothermic, the first nanoseconds of an explosion splintering into white-hot fractal fissures. Lambo's Latest Rambo Has a Heart
II, figs. 1, 2, 3, 4), the antero-temporal sulcus (scissure parallele) so characteristic of the ape's brain, is as well, if not better developed than the fissure of Rolando, and is much more marked than the proper frontal sulci. Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes
The longitudinal fissure corresponds to the medial line of the scalp between the nasion and inion. XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 2. Surface Markings of Special Regions of the Head and Neck
In a few minutes the diapir itself would mush into the thick cap ice, flow upward through fissures, lenticulae and leads, and bubble slush ice in a fountain a hundred meters high. Ilium
Slide 11: 98) A trigger finger is 103) In the following types of fractures of long bones, a. an inflamed index finger crepitus can be elicited only in: b. an atrophic index finger in a median nerve palsy a. Fissures c. due to stenosing tenovaginitis affecting one of the b. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
A slowly developing narrowing of the palpebral fissure accompanies these events, which reflect a decrease in the sympathetic innervation, which - particularly in the pupil - occurs with an increase in parasympathetic influence. Walter Hess - Nobel Lecture
Big (sometimes a foot across) and obstinately colorful (some are orange, some are purple; no one knows why), the sea star is usually found in a rockfissure sprawled like a discarded toy.
The challenge was to abseil through a vertical fissure, with lights off, into a large underground cavern.
We did so, but it appeared that the spot at which we originally struck the fissure was the narrowest place; it widened at either side. Chatterbox, 1905.
The folium vermis (folium cacuminis; cacuminal lobe) is a short, narrow, concealed band at the posterior extremity of the vermis, consisting apparently of a single folium, but in reality marked on its upper and under surfaces by secondary fissures. IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon
Most people inherently recognise what they call bright or fresh red bleeding, and tend to attribute that to a local cause such as a haemorrhoid or an anal fissure, or even just some excoriated itchy skin.
However, nourished by dew, the eastern Jidda 'is relatively well vegetated with a very open acacia woodland of small Acacia tortilis and Prosopis cineraria trees with shrubby A. ehrenbergiana growing in shallow sandy depressions, rock fissures and in drainage swales on the gravel plains. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman
The cuneus is a wedge-shaped area between the calcarine fissure and the medial part of the parietoöccipital fissure. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
So, for instance, fissures in the underlying bedrock or a man-made trench or pit will often fill with soils and matter that have greater moisture retention and more nutrients than the surrounding, undisturbed subsoil.
It may be moist and pink, there may be red psoriasiform with yellow, superficial crusting, or there may be a dry fissured area with mucoid discharge.
The surfaces of the hemispheres are moulded into a number of irregular eminences, named gyri or convolutions, and separated by furrows termed fissures and sulci. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
The choroid plexus of the 3rd ventricle is united with the choroid plexus of the lateral ventricle via the choroid fissure between thalamus and fornix.
The primary fracture is usually longitudinal, passing through the facets for the talus and cuboid, and from this various secondary fissures radiate; the cancellated tissue is much crushed, so that the whole bone is flattened out. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
The diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome is partly based on craniofacial features which include microcephaly, telecanthus, narrow palpebral fissures, thin lips and a flat philtrum, with or without cleft lip or palate.
In addition, the state itself is subject to the diverse cultural pressures and social fissures to which intellectuals, in their writings about folk religion, give voice.
Round in a circle the widening fissure raced, ringing Lord Vulpine and all his men, penning them inside a vast ditch. A TIME OF WAR
The move was controversial given the deep fissures in the eurozone. Times, Sunday Times
As in, "The transverse occipital sulcus intersects the intraparietal sulcus near the level of the parieto-occipital fissure" and "The Sahara is in Afghanistan, I think." ... Boing Boing
More than 40 people were killed and nearly 2,000 injured as buildings collapsed and huge fissures opened up across the island. Times, Sunday Times
Sonia is a freak, and a picture of Sonia whose face bears the manifestations of the congenital syndrome that afflicts her oblique palpebral fissures, I have learned they are called, epicanthal folds, and a mouth that is disproportionately small will serve as a constant reminder to Dad that he created for the second time in his life a child with physical and mental imperfections. A Traitor to Memory
The shelves and fissures which bisect these rocks are home to edible crabs, velvet swimming crabs, prawns, squat lobsters and the occasional large common lobster, which will march out boldly to meet your intrusion.
And always to areas where the ocean floor dropped dramatically; great fissures in the rocky crust.
For some the madness seemed to bubble with molten brilliance from every fissure.
Water starts to emerge between small fissures where the ice is starting to cleave. Times, Sunday Times
When these pyramidal fibers are traced downward it is found that some two-thirds or more of them leave the pyramids in successive bundles, and decussate in the anterior median fissure, forming what is termed the pyramidal decussation. IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon
The ice was seven or eight feet thick, and some of the fissures were a yard wide at the surface, and tapered to a wedge shape at the bottom. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life
However, one more frequently finds the commonly described five lobes not separated by fissures.
The fissures in the rocks seem to burrow ever deeper into the earth and seem blindingly black and dark.
The crater appears to be composed of a hard grey clinkstone, much fissured; but lower down the mountain, the rock is softer, and has a bluish tinge. The Hawaiian Archipelago
By the passage of the water, some part of the fissures was often enlarged into a round hole of considerable size, ending in a craterlet at the surface. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
The width of bilateral palpebral fissures and exophthalmus were measured respectively for the patients wearing two types of prosthesis, the horizontal excursions were evaluated meanwhile.
Ahead and to the right were rolling miles of a pahoehoe sea, bounded by the unseen Pacific 3,000 feet below, with countless craters, fissures emitting vapour, and all other concomitants of volcanic action; bounded to the north by the vast crater of The Hawaiian Archipelago
This circumstance is considered by the Uzbeks as a miracle, and attributed by them to the son of David; but the more natural explanation would be, that a considerable fissure from the bed of the Oxus, which, from a point at a greater elevation, finds its exit here, and in the lapse of ages having discharged its stream of water impregnated with fine sand, has given rise to the monticule as it now appears, and whose dimensions will probably still increase. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
The spinal cord is divided in front through the middle nearly as far as its center, by a deep fissure, called the _anterior fissure_, and behind, in a similar manner, by the posterior _fissure_. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Structures adjacent to the nasopharynx, such as nerves and vessels, facilitate the infiltration of nasopharyngeal cancer through foramina and fissures, from extracranial to intracranial spaces.
I've got nary a line on my face and I'm now free to secretly eye the fissures that have started to rumple my friends 'faces. Verena von Pfetten: Tan Is The New Tacky
Attitudes toward active participation in the war opened deep fissures in the movement which, at the extreme, were never healed.
By this I knew the hills were still mad, and deeply fissured, and that nesting within remained the contumacious hybrids. Perquampi
They may include a single transverse palmar crease (a single instead of a double crease across one or both palms, also called the Simian crease), an almond shape to the eyes caused by an epicanthic fold of the eyelid, upslanting palpebral fissures, shorter limbs, poor muscle tone, a larger than normal space between the big and second toes, and protruding tongue. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sickest tongue I have ever seen
It is attached superiorly to the spine of the sphenoid and the region of the petrotympanic fissure.
These gyri are termed the opercula of the insula; they are separated from each other by the three rami of the lateral fissure, and are named the orbital, frontal, frontoparietal, and temporal opercula. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
The plants were growing from several fissures in the mafic bedrock that underlies the creek.
Sea-floor fissures lined with an asbestos mineral called chrysotile are places where life could have gained a foothold 3.5 billion years ago. Dailyindia.com News Feed
It's riddled with multitudinous cracks and fissures along the crests of ocean ridges - where plate-tectonic action cracks and spreads apart the seafloor.
Karst is an area of irregular limestone in which erosion has produced fissures, sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns.
A foramen may be present in the petrobasilar fissure in front of the jugular foramen through which runs the inferior petrosal sinus.
Her knuckles were full of tiny fissures and wrinkles, the backs covered with freckles, moles and scars.
Extensive slit-like cuts in this region, when deep enough to lacerate the keratogenous membrane, are sometimes followed by the growth of a fissure in the horn, and what might almost be termed a permanent sand-crack results. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
It overlaps the lingula, from which it is separated by the precentral fissure; laterally, it extends along the upper and anterior part of each hemisphere, where it forms a wing-like prolongation, the ala lobuli centralis. IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon
By this I knew the hills were still mad, and deeply fissured, and that nesting within remained the contumacious hybrids. Perquampi
These patients must be treated to avoid or interhemispheric fissure may restrict the increased ICP to only reduce secondary lesion, due to hypoxemia, hypercapnia, one side of the brain, at least, in the beginning; sometimes, the hypocapnia, etc. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The near-vertical sides are fissured, and twenty-four caves and rock shelters are known.
The walls are crisscrossed with large fissured cracks, like veins. Times, Sunday Times
The vena azygos may be displaced outward, so that, instead of curving over the root of the lung, it makes a deep fissure in the upper part of the right lung, called the azygos lobe.
The anterior district (Fig. 679) is named the pyramid (pyramis medullæ oblongatæ) and lies between the anterior median fissure and the antero-lateral sulcus. IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon
Postcentral Fissural Complex -- In this hemicerebrum, the postcentral and subcentral are combined to form a continuous fissure, attaining a length of 8.5 cm. Christian Science
Within a few years, this class fissure helped to crack apart American solidarity.
Worse, the notion of "man" would need an interpretation characterized by exceeding liberality to accommodate any likeness of the branchy, spiny, mandibled things that pulled her down through a deep fissure. Locust Valley Breakdown
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
A splintered fissure held delicate fucoid impressions in fine script full of meaning. The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895
The occurrence of ventifacts and frost fissures implies a cold, windy periglacial climate.
The infection may extend to the cartilaginous skeleton of the ear canal and through Santorini's fissures to reach the temporal bone, causing osteitis.
Illuminating fissures and fault lines began to appear.
They may include a single transverse palmar crease (a single instead of a double crease across one or both palms, also called the Simian crease), an almond shape to the eyes caused by an epicanthic fold of the eyelid, upslanting palpebral fissures, shorter limbs, poor muscle tone, a larger than normal space between the big and second toes, and protruding tongue. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sickest tongue I have ever seen
In many cases of quarter crack, and in some cases of toe crack as well, if the edges remain close together, with but little motion, the fissure is dry; but in other cases a thin, offensive discharge issues from the crack and the ulcerated soft tissues, or a funguslike growth protrudes from the narrow opening. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
The anterior rhinal fissure, which is present in the early human foetus, vanishes (almost, if not altogether) in the adult. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
But it will never repay a certain kind of close reading, that which is in vogue today and looks for aporias, fissures, self-subversions, and the rest of the deconstructionist's tool-kit.
Dry skin lotions, creams, or thicker preparations may be used to lubricate the skin, prevent fissures, and keep the skin pliable.
Here we find its counterpart in this large mass of stone; only the clay here, mixed with a portion of lime is petrified, and the fissures filled up with carbonate of lime; thus forming the septaria, or cement stone. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
System ', p. 126) of a fissure 480 feet wide, through which melaphyre has been ejected, at the coal-mine at Cornbrook, Hoar Edge. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
They are full of cracked or misaligned paving slabs or kerbstones, running fissures and uneven surfaces everywhere.
The philosophers in the first century wrote of gases producing euphoria and of a spring emanating from fissures, or chasms, in the bedrock inside the oracular chamber.
The results show that the probability distribution characteristic of the vertical permeability coefficient in fissured rock zone is much close to the log-normal distribution.
Big (sometimes a foot across) and obstinately colorful (some are orange, some are purple; no one knows why), the sea star is usually found in a rockfissure sprawled like a discarded toy.
The ophthalmic artery may be associated with the development of a branch of the lacrimal artery that passes through the sphenoidal fissure to anastomose with the middle meningeal artery.
He found himself following a main fissure down through the rock, the only one wide enough to admit him.
The hierarchal status of the Tudor princesses merely allowed them to exploit certain fissures — in particular, the resources of the household — to their fullest potential. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
The native-copper deposits can be further divided into fissure veins, and blanket-type lode deposits that occur in amygdaloidal lava flow tops and sedimentary conglomerate beds.
Its too-tasteful palette of moss green, taupe, deep mustard and soft white was only partly offset by the raw factuality of the underlying wall's fissures and patches.
The British Army is conducting military maneuvers on a remote Scottish moor when a fissure suddenly erupts.
This animation illustrates causes and progression of pit & fissure and interproximal tooth decay; cavity preparation with traditional high speed rotary handpiece, laser, and microabrasion handpieces; and restoration of Class II (interproximal) cavities with both silver amalgam and tooth colored composite resin fillings. WN.com - Articles related to Tourism revenues up 28% in first half - report
Certain of the fissures and sulci are utilized for the purpose of dividing the hemisphere into lobes, and are therefore termed interlobular; included under this category are the lateral cerebral, parietoöccipital, calcarine, and collateral fissures, the central and cingulate sulci, and the sulcus circularis. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
Copper also filled voids and occurred in thin fissure veins that cut the lodes.
Water starts to emerge between small fissures where the ice is starting to cleave. Times, Sunday Times
But it is not wise to visit these glaciers without someone who knows them, for one might easily fall into one of the great fissures in the ice, known as crevasses, especially if lately-fallen snow had hidden the opening of the mighty crack. Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
This meant that the magma that fed the fissures of the second phase was almost completely de-gassed, hence its quiet emission.
The Zygomatic Nerve (n. zygomaticus; temporomalar nerve; orbital nerve) arises in the pterygopalatine fossa, enters the orbit by the inferior orbital fissure, and divides at the back of that cavity into two branches, zygomaticotemporal and zygomaticofacial. IX. Neurology. 5e. The Trigeminal Nerve
The approximate locations of the major fissures are inferred from areas of relatively sparse pulmonary vascularity.
You can also find everything you need for rockeries, natural stone features and paving - including Kent rag, fissured limestone, green/pink granite and Cornish rustic slate.
Chronic superficial glossitis associated with leucoplakia, and syphilitic fissures, ulcers, or scars, also act as predisposing factors. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
‘Suddenly,’ she recalls, ‘a fissure splits the surface and billowing clouds of sulfurous gases hurl ice and ash into the sky.’
Those foods containing refined carbohydrates that are fine enough to remain on the teeth by sticking to the fissures on the tooth surface are termed cariogenic (capable of causing cavities).
We demonstrate 2 markers of normal vermian development: the primary fissure and fastigial point.
Fissures, a mucoid discharge and yellow crusting are sometimes present.
Diddy Shovel's skin was like asphalt, fissured and cracked, thickened by a lifetime of weather, the scurf of age. THE SHIPPING NEWS
The fissures between allowed only thin, precise shafts of pale light to strike the trunks and grass, as if the trees were fashioning the sun into a gallery of shapes.
His job responsibilities required that he wear latex gloves, and he eventually developed coryza (ie, acute rhinitis), skin exfoliation, and skin fissures.
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.
Isn't there advantage in exposing the fissures within society itself?
Given that the book's climax describes a showdown between sharecroppers and planters, one might imagine that class constituted a major fissure in the county's history.
These pains are typically sharp and knife-like due to the fissure opening up each time your bowels are opened.
Surgical dilation or release of the internal sphincter has been the traditional treatment of chronic or severe fissures.
Between these extremes are cases in which the capsular and synovial layer are extensively lacerated without involvement of the bones, and others in which the bones are implicated without serious damage being done to ligaments or synovial layer -- for example, by a bullet passing through and through the cancellated part of one of the constituent bones, or by a fissure extending into the articular surface. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
Its superstructure began to fissure and crack apart from the concentrated barrages.
The sunlight showed, too, that the fissure was the skylight of a cave which opened out on the ravine. Tropic Days
Massaging your feet with moisturizing cream will soften and hydrate rough, dry and fissured skin as well as relaxing the foot after a long day. Dr. Steve Rosenberg: Help... Is It a Shoe Problem or a Foot Problem?
Montana was a vast three-dimensional world, rich with complex geological strata, alive with the movement of minerals through once-molten rock, shaped and fissured by eons of pressure and time.
Looks like a coral reef cut into deeply fissured rectangles that reveal fossils.
In Ingleborough itself there is Gaping Gill Hole, a vast fissure nearly Yorkshire
He ran his hand over a small fissure in the rock floor.
The excellent results from the method described in the foregoing paragraph has relegated laryngostomy to those cases that come in with a severe cicatricial stenosis from an injudicious laryngofissure; and even in these cases cure of the stenosis as well as the papillomata can usually be obtained by endoscopic methods alone, using superficial scalping off of the papillomata with subsequent laryngoscopic bouginage for the stenosis. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
Where land meets sea in the north, the power of the ocean has chiselled undercuts, caves and fissures into the limestone cliff.
It is sometimes called the fissure of Rolando, after an 18th-century Italian anatomist, Luigi Rolando, who was the first to describe it carefully. The Human Brain
As can be seen in the left hemisphere, the choroid plexus protrudes into the central part of the lateral ventricle, and the route of entry of the plexus is via the choroid fissure, between the fornix and the lamina affixa.
Bumpy, soccer-ball-sized burls punctuate one side; elsewhere it's crisscrossed with deep fissures that create bold basketweave patterns.
Koeneke, like an oracle asquat his own fissure, has written a book that is unconscionably nifty-gallifty. Books by Portland Authors: Rodney Koeneke - Reading Local: Portland
Attitudes toward active participation in the war opened deep fissures in the movement which, at the extreme, were never healed.
Thus the choroid plexuses of the lateral ventricles are in fact only lateral expansions of the tela choroidea of the 3rd ventricle, and they extend into the lateral ventricles by way of the choroid fissures.
From a fissure in the furthest corner of the chamber a voice as fatigued as her own emerged. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Aggravating factors that can increase the size and severity of a quantum fissure include chroniton particles, anti-time anomalies and concentrated subspace field pulses. The Starfleet Survival Guide
The lamia are clawing their way out of a four-foot wide, fire-licked fissure that bisects the hollow. Slayed
Cracks in your heel are known as fissures and, if not properly cared for, can cause pain standing and walking in shoes or sandals. Dr. Steve Rosenberg: Five Foot Tips to Keep Your Feet Healthy for 2012
Mineralogically, the conglomerate lodes have produced many superb specimens, although they contain fewer mineral species than the fissure veins and amygdaloidal lodes.
The Hippocampal Fissure (fissura hippocampi; dentate fissure) begins immediately behind the splenium of the corpus callosum, and runs forward between the hippocampal and dentate gyri to end in the uncus. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
Numerous fissure veins and fracture planes were present that contained brittle arsenical copper and chalcocite.
The most common variation of the lungs is the presence of supernumerary fissures.
The major three pore assembly types are shown below: microfissure, microfissure_pore and pore, and are dominated by the first two types.
The war opened up profound fissures among the leading capitalist powers.
Platyrrhini proper, the only observation with which I am acquainted is due to Pansch, who found in the brain of a foetal Cebus Apella, in addition to the sylvian fissure and the deep calcarine fissure, only a very shallow antero-temporal fissure (scissure parallele of Gratiolet). Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes
Orebodies in the fissure veins and both rock types were formed by hot water solutions moving upward and laterally along fractures and fault zones, brecciated amygdaloidal flow tops, and permeable conglomerate beds.
The façade of part of the house is fissured due to subsidence.
A chest radiograph shows right pleural wall thickening following the contour of the minor fissure consistent with right pleural effusion.
Suction occurs when there is a hole or fissure in the dam wall on the upstream side, and it means death for divers.
So it appears the two words originally had two distinct meanings "ope" possibly meant a fissure in a rock? and "hope" meant a valley, but these distinctions have since on the whole been blurred. Languagehat.com: (H)OPE.
It is clearly a plan on the part of outsiders to come in this country and spark civil war, create sectarian violence and try to expose fissures in the society.
If local applications fail, it may be necessary to cocainise the fissure and scrape it with a sharp spoon. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
There, shrouded by darkness and fog, was a gap in the mountain-a fissure four times the fum reach of a man, ex tending from the clifflike face of the peak above down to the deep valley below, shrouded in nocturnal fog. Labor Policy
The groove produced by the bending over of the rhombic lip is here known as the floccular fissure; when the two lateral walls fuse, the right and left floccular fissures join in the middle line and their central part becomes the post-nodular fissure. IX. Neurology. 2. Development of the Nervous System
The road was more like a stone-quarry than a carriageable public highway, so encumbered was it with granite fragments, heaped ready for top-dressing and finishing; and the bridge led on to a raised embankment, coming to a sudden fissure, where the old coach-road crossed it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
ANFRACTUOSITY (from Lat. _anfractuosus_, winding), twisting and turning, circuitousness; a word usually employed in the plural to denote winding channels such as occur in the depths of the sea, mountains, or the fissures (_sulci_) separating the convolutions of the brain, or, by analogy, in the mind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Beyond the pine, and a little lower on the cliff, a dozen or so bushes grew from a wide fissure.
The rhinencephalon appears as a longitudinal elevation, with a corresponding internal furrow, on the under surface of the hemisphere close to the lamina terminalis; it is separated from the lateral surface of the hemisphere by a furrow, the external rhinal fissure, and is continuous behind with that part of the hemisphere, which will ultimately form the anterior end of the temporal lobe. IX. Neurology. 2. Development of the Nervous System
But why did one generation think in terms of mechanical balances and the other in terms of structural cracks and fissures? The Constraints of Corporate Tradition
Tiny fissures are opened in the rock, through which the trapped gas can then escape, be brought to the surface and piped off. Times, Sunday Times
Sweltering mist of changing shades slithered through the funnels and fissures of the ship, constantly spewing out balls of effusive film containing radioactive particles and radiant flares.
Referring again to the search for the crack, it is well to know that with toe-crack the fissure is the more readily seen when the foot is lifted from the ground. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
In Centaurea _cyanea_, the disposition of the limb of the ray is such that the incomplete part or the fissure is outside. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
However, producing these two rustic finishes creates minute fissures in the stone, thereby increasing its liquid absorption and its retention of dirt and pollutants.
The same can be true of ideological differences, with the personal rivalry in place long before the policy fissure that maps on to it.
Beyond the pine, and a little lower on the cliff, a dozen or so bushes grew from a wide fissure.
More commonly, however, the oil is collected in fissures in the rocks, at various depths below the surface. The Petroleum Oil-Fields at Franklin, Pennsylvania
The first of these coats the walls and bounding convolutions of the calcarine fissure, and is distinguished by the well-known line of Gennari or Vicq dAzyr; the second area forms an investing zone a centimetre or more broad around the first, and is characterized by a remarkable wealth of fibers, as well as by curious pyriform cells of large size richly stocked with chromophilic elementscells which seem to have escaped the observation of Ramón y Cajal, Bolton, and others who have worked at this region. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
In ventral view, the sphenorbital fissure, which is long and oval, is exposed posteriorly and is separated from the relatively small optic foramen by a narrow bony splint.
Weight of the encephalic mass 2-1/2 lbs. Depth of the interhemispherical fissure 1-2/8 inches. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
In this natural and inevitable process of atrophy, parts of the brain shrink, while the sulci, or fissures of the brain become shallower and wider.
Plastic coatings placed by a dental professional in the pits and fissures of the permanent teeth can help reduce caries.
There are three types of water flow in karst drainage systems: conduit, fissure, and diffuse.
The move was controversial given the deep fissures in the eurozone. Times, Sunday Times
Water gurgled up out of the hole and the ice around it began to leak through long fissures.
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Murchison, Sir R., account of a large fissure through which melaphyre had been ejected, 258; classification of fossiliferous strata, 277; on the age of the Palaeosaurus and Thecodontosaurus of Bristol, 274. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
The materials of the Epomean landslips had evidently been separated for some time by shallow fissures from the adjoining rock, for the surfaces of the fissures were discoloured by fumarolic action. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
The ore bodies have the form of long sheets parallel to the bedding, the copper and associated minerals filling amygdaloidal openings and small fissures in the flows, and replacing conglomeratic sediments which lie between the flows. The Economic Aspect of Geology
The Anterior Median Fissure (fissura mediana anterior; ventral or ventromedian fissure) contains a fold of pia mater, and extends along the entire length of the medulla oblongata: it ends at the lower border of the pons in a small triangular expansion, termed the foramen cecum. IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon
Photodilus seem not to have been investigated, but it has been found to want the tarsal loop, as well as the manubrial process, while its clavicles are not joined in a furcula, nor do they meet the keel, and the posterior margin of the sternum has processes and fissures like the tawny section. The Country House
These decussating bundles can be seen distinctly between the lips of the ventral median fissure.
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Suddenly a fissure runs through the group of contented 40-year-olds at the hub of the narrative.
These changes may result in granulation, fissures, ecchymoses, telangiectases and ulcerations.
As in, "The transverse occipital sulcus intersects the intraparietal sulcus near the level of the parieto-occipital fissure" and "The Sahara is in Afghanistan, I think." ... Boing Boing
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Here again the reef top was cracked and fissured, allowing fingers of natural light to play through the deep blue water.
It was a fissure filling of Paleozoic, probably Permian, age.
Tiny fissures are opened in the rock, through which the trapped gas can then escape, be brought to the surface and piped off. Times, Sunday Times
The anterior part of this fissure gives rise to the prominence of the calcar avis in the posterior cornu of the lateral ventricle. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
We would slide into the water and spend our 30-40 minutes, and when we came up what greeted us was a wall of snowy rock, fissured glaciers flowing to the waterline and huge towers of ice that sometimes collapsed before our eyes.
Not for an instant did the roar diminish, not for a second was the kindly veil of night left unrent by a fissure of vengeful flame. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne
Thicker calluses may become painful, especially if they are cracked and fissured. Neal M. Blitz, D.P.M., F.A.C.F.A.S.: High Heel Hangover: 6 Steps to Getting Back on Your Feet Fast
The surgery went for eight hours; it was complicated by tentacles wrapped around the optic nerve and extending into the choroidal fissure which is the groove on the surface of the optic stalk.
The pristine plasterwork was already fissured with micro-cracks.
All that remained was a quick whizz round a few interesting features of the park - the Mangrove Channel, the fissures from an earthquake in the 80s and the Magic Lagoon.
‘Earth fissures several feet wide and deep have been observed in Lucerne Valley,’ he said.

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