'Fissure' definitions:
Definition of 'fissure'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Fissure'
From: GCIDE
- Fissure \Fis"sure\, v. t. To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fissure'
From: GCIDE
- 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 or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole wall of the cerebrum.
- Fissure needle (Surg.), a spiral needle for catching together the gaping lips of wounds. --Knight.
- Fissure of rolando (Anat.), the furrow separating the frontal from the parietal lobe in the cerebrum.
- Fissure of Sylvius (Anat.), a deep cerebral fissure separating the frontal from the temporal lobe. See Illust. under Brain.
- Fissure vein (Mining), a crack in the earth's surface filled with mineral matter. --Raymond. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fissure'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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