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• It was not strictly a cave, but a narrow fissure in the rock.From the entry cave
• Libido is “tertiated” and the shell fissured, becoming permeable to affects, the other, and reality.2021, Gabriela Goldstein, Art in Psychoanalysis. From the entry tertiate
• Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures.2014 October 26, Jeff Howell, “Is the Japanese knotweed threat exaggerated? Our troubleshooter calls for calm about Japanese knotweed in…. From the entry root
• Fraccing fluids contain proppants that forced into the natural fractures of fissures of the rock under pressure.2014, Alireza Bahadori, Natural Gas Processing: Technology and Engineering Design (Technology and Engineering), Gulf Professional…. From the entry fraccing
• The island gains its geothermal heat from basaltic magma in the fissure systems of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.2000, Tony Waltham, “Geyser watching”, in Geology Today, volume 16, number 3, page 97. From the entry basaltic
• The largest sulcus, the longitudinal fissure, divides the brain into left and right hemispheres.1999, Thomas C. Pritchard, Kevin D. Alloway, Medical Neuroscience, page 55. From the entry sulcus
• Those in rock fissures or coral crevices have stouter and more pyriform bodies.1992, Edward Bayler Cutler, The Sipuncula: Their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution, page 145. From the entry pyriform
• Such cryovolcanism probably occurred on Saturn's moon Enceladus (below right), where ices oozed through fissures.1990 August, Bradford A. Smith, “Voyage of the Century”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 65. From the entry Enceladus
• Warping of the continental plate created fissures and fractures in the Roraima sandstone plateaus.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 543. From the entry continental plate
• The rosehead bur is used to remove bone and the flat fissured bur to bisect a tooth for easier removal.2017, Nicola Rogers, Cinzia Pickett, Basic Guide to Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, page 50. From the entry rosehead
• The primary fissure (arrow) and other interfoliate fissures are closed.2016, Thierry A. G. M. Huisman, Andrea Poretti, The Pediatric Cerebellum, page 380. From the entry interfoliate
• The interfoliate fissures of the anterior vermian lobule, above the primary fissure (arrow), are open, whereas those below are closed.2016, Thierry A. G. M. Huisman, Andrea Poretti, The Pediatric Cerebellum, page 380. From the entry interfoliate
• Planthoppers begin life as eggs deposited in fissures on the surface of their host plant or even beneath the bark.2011, Ross Piper, Pests: A Guide to the World's Most Maligned, Yet Misunderstood Creatures, page 130. From the entry planthopper
• The earth split open into wide fissures and thousands of sink-holes, trees were uprooted and railroad tracks buckled.1998, Richard O'Neill, “Big Trouble in China”, in Natural Disasters, Parragon, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18, column 3. From the entry sink-hole
• Lateral canthoplasty to reduce the size of the palpebrate fissure.1979, Kirk N. Gelatt, Robert L. Peiffer, R. M. Gwin, Manual of External Ophthalmic Surgery, page 98. From the entry palpebrate
• Constant presence of the four tags indicates they may be permanent structures rather than temporary eversions or outrollings from the fissure.1963, Records of the Indian Museum, volumes 53-55, page 109. From the entry outrolling
• All the infants had global hypogyration of the cerebral cortex that was severe (only the Sylvian fissure was obviously present) in 78% of the infants.2016 April 6, Adriano N. Hazin, Andrea Poretti, Danielle Di Cavalcanti Souza Cruz, Marli Tenorio, Ana van der Linden, Lindomar Jose Pena…. From the entry hypogyration
• Silfra is a fissure between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates, which are drifting apart at a rate of 2cm each year.2015 August, Andrew Bain et al., edited by Karyn Noble, Ross Taylor, and Nick Mee, Ultimate Travel: Our List of the 500 Best Places to…. From the entry crystal-clear
• The interlobar nodes are positioned behind lingular segmental veins from an anterior mediastinal view, and behind the lingular segmental arteries from an interlobar fissure view.2015 August 6, Hiroaki Kuroda et al., “Lymph Node Metastases and Prognosis in Left Upper Division Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers: The Impact…. From the entry lingular
• (b) The incomplete minor fissure was divided by using an endocutter to complete the right middle lobe lobectomy via the subxyphoid single-port approach.2015 March 2, Chia-Chuan Liu et al., “Subxyphoid single-incision thoracoscopic pulmonary metastasectomy”, in Thoracic Cancer, volume 6, →DOI. From the entry endocutter
• A groove in the cortex is called a fissure or a sulcus, and the upfolded tissue between two sulci is a gyrus.2012, Michael A. Arbib, How the Brain Got Language: The Mirror System Hypothesis, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry upfold
• Luca is now usually placed deep underground, in a fissure in hot igneous rocks, where she fed on sulphur, iron, hydrogen and carbon.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 19. From the entry Luca
• The extimate is, like the social limit I have been outlining, a fold or fissure within a conceptual and discursive structure, an internal limit.1995, Jonathan Elmer, “Introduction: The Figure of Mass Culture”, in Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture, & Edgar Allan Poe…. From the entry extimate
• I built crude ladders; I wedged sticks in narrow fissures; I chopped toe-holds and finger-holds with my long knife; but at last I scaled them.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry scale
• She had distinctive facial features with upslanting palpebral fissures, a long tubular nose with a prominent nasal bridge and tip, an overhanging columella, and a short philtrum.2015 July 29, George A. Tanteles et al., “Mild Phenotype in a Patient with a De Novo 6.3 Mb Distal Deletion at 10q26.2q26.3”, in Case…. From the entry upslanting
• Viewed at closer range, and internally, denuded of the fantastic, it is only what it poses to be, the deepest, awesomest, grandest fissure in the world.1906 July, American Thresherman, volume 9, number 3, page 7. From the entry awesomest

Meaning of fissure

1. noun A long, narrow crack or opening made by breaking or splitting, especially in rock or earth.
2. noun A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft or tear between body parts or in the substance of an organ.
3. noun A break or slit in tissue usually at the junction of skin and mucous membrane.

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How do you use fissure in a sentence?

Fissure is used as a noun and verb. For example: “It was not strictly a cave, but a narrow fissure in the rock.”

What is a short sentence with fissure?

“Lateral canthoplasty to reduce the size of the palpebrate fissure.”

What does fissure mean?

Fissure means a long, narrow crack or opening made by breaking or splitting, especially in rock or earth.