Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A split or opening in an organ or part.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A longitudinal opening in a body made by cutting; a cleft; a rent; a fissure; hence, a rupture, split, or division; a schism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
longitudinal opening made bycutting ; acleft ; afissure .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a long narrow opening
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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 Charles Darwin 1845
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Let growe theyre here without cuttinge or scissure.
The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489
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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 Charles Darwin 1845
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