Fissure
51fissure of Sylvius — noun the deepest and most prominent of the cortical fissures; separates the frontal lobes and temporal lobes in both hemispheres • Syn: ↑Sylvian fissure, ↑lateral cerebral sulcus, ↑sulcus lateralis cerebri • Hypernyms: ↑sulcus • Part Holonyms: ↑ …
52fissure — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin fissura, from fissus Date: 14th century 1. a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting 2. a. a natural cleft between… …
53fissure — 1) any groove, notch or furrow in a bone 2) a deep and narrow depression cutting across a reef front …
54fissure — n. [L. fissura, cleft] A narrow opening, slit, furrow or groove separating adjacent tissues, parts or organs …
55fissure — 1. noun /ˈfɪ.ʃɚ/ a crack or opening, as in a rock 2. verb /ˈfɪ.ʃɚ/ To split forming fissures …
56fissure — Separation of shell by sulcus; occurs on carapace between antennal and postorbital spines of some crangonid shrimps [Butler, T.H.] …
57fissure — a crack in the crust through which lava may erupt …
58fissure — An open joint or crack in rocks [16]. Any discontinuity within the rock mass that is either initially open or capable of being opened by dissolution to provide a route for water movement. Fissures in this sense, applied generally in karst,… …
59fissure — 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,… …
60fissure — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cleft, chink, opening, crack, rift, breach. See interval. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. gap, cleft, crevice; see hole 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. cleft, crack, groove, crevice, crevasse, crack,… …
