Definition of Fissured

1. Verb. (past of fissure) ¹

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Definition of Fissured

1. fissure [v] - See also: fissure

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fissured

fissural cyst
fissuration
fissurations
fissure
fissure bur
fissure caries
fissure for ligamentum teres
fissure in ano
fissure of Rolando
fissure of Sylvius
fissure of ligamentum venosum
fissure of round ligament of liver
fissure of venous ligament
fissure sealant
fissure sign
fissured (current term)
fissured fracture
fissureless
fissurelike
fissurella
fissurellas
fissures
fissures of liver
fissures of lung
fissuring
fist-fight

Literary usage of Fissured

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Gunshot Wounds by Thomas Longmore (1862)
"fissured fractures, when the fissure extends through the skull, usually result from injuries by shell. The passage of a ball may fracture and very slightly ..."

2. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... to Cucao—Impenetrable Forests —Valdivia Indians—Earthquake—Concepcion—Great Earthquake —Rocks fissured—Appearance of the former Towns—The Sea Black and ..."

3. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen, Marcus Beck (1884)
"fissured. photographs of a preparation in the Army Medical Museum, Washington, represent a case of extensive gunshot fracture with depression of the inner ..."

4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... to Cucao—Impenetrable Forests —Valdivia Indians—Earthquake—Concepcion—Great Earthquake —Rocks fissured—Appearance of the former Towns—The Sea Black and ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1866)
"fissured Fracture of the External Table of the Skull produced by a Build striking the -inside of the Skull. ..."

6. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1859)
"Agatha, near Trento,f remarks, " that one is astonished at the remarkable manner in which it is split and fissured." This is still more striking when the ..."

7. The Structure of Conflict by Paul G. Swingle (1885)
"Needles employed in fissured Palate. i side or in front. The steps of the operation have been hitherto as follows : Pare es of the fissure, pass the sutures ..."

8. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery and Their Allied Sciences by New Sydenham Society (1875)
"cases it is dry and fissured, aud imprinted by the teeth,and may be the seat of diphtheritic deposit. The gums, buccal mucous membrane, ..."

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