- or 'crack'.
Fissures emerge in Earth's crust, on ice
sheets and glaciers, and on volcanoes. A
ground fissure, also
called an
earth fissure, is a long,...
- An anal
fissure is a
break or tear in the skin of the anal canal. Anal
fissures may be
noticed by
bright red anal
bleeding on
toilet paper and undergarments...
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between the
sclera and the retina.
Early in
development the
choroidal fissure is a
groove that
extends along the
ventral aspect of the
optic stalk. In...
- Look up
fissure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
fissure is a
narrow crack or
opening in the Earth's
surface Fissure or
fissures may also
refer to:...
-
horizontal fissure, and an
oblique fissure. The left lung is
divided into two
lobes by an
oblique fissure which is
closely aligned with the
oblique fissure in...
- The
petrotympanic fissure (also
known as the
squamotympanic fissure or the
glaserian fissure) is a
fissure in the
temporal bone that runs from the temporomandibular...
- The
palpebral fissure is the
elliptic space between the
medial and
lateral canthi of the two open eyelids. In
simple terms, it is the
opening between...
-
pterygomaxillary fissure is a
fissure of the
human skull. It is vertical, and
descends at
right angles from the
medial end of the
inferior orbital fissure. It is...
- The
longitudinal fissure (or
cerebral fissure,
great longitudinal fissure,
median longitudinal fissure,
interhemispheric fissure) is the deep
groove that...
- A skin
fissure is a
cutaneous condition in
which there is a linear-like
cleavage of skin,
sometimes defined as
extending into the dermis. It is smaller...
