(n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.
(n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mount Everest's Hillary Step is still there, say Nepalese climbers Read more Kumar’s body was spotted on Monday deep inside a 200-metre crevasse well into the “death zone”, where oxygen levels plummet and the risk of altitude sickness is high.
(2) Soluble receptor--3H-steroid complex (cytosol or nuclear extract) is adsorbed quantitatively within the crevasses of porous glass beads.
(3) For every journey a climber makes through this labyrinth of ice cliffs and crevasses, the sherpas who keep their clients supplied have to make as many as 10.
(4) The route that is laid anew each year through the icefall, one of the most dangerous passages though low down the peak, has been largely destroyed and local Sherpa guides who specialise in preparing a path through the jumble of ice blocks and crevasses are reported to have refused to repair it.
(5) After Hinkes broke his arm in 2000 falling into a crevasse while climbing Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak, some climbers speculated that he would call it a day.
(6) To eliminate that from the search – assuming we don’t find the aircraft – we have the cover the whole area.” The complexities surrounding the search are immense: the area is six days’ sail from the nearest shore and previously unmapped, with water depths of up to 6,000m and underwater mountains, crevasses and 2,000m sheer drops.
(7) (2) A victim was discovered in the lower ablation area 8 years after falling down a crevasse in the middle part of the ablation area.
(8) While a paying climber might travel through the treacherous icefall – a constantly moving, creaking, crevasse-riddled outflow of the Khumbu glacier – as few as four times, Sherpa climbers might make 30 or 40 journeys, carrying loads of oxygen, tents, food, water and fuel to the higher camps, a system that has evolved in the commercial era to give people who might not be the strongest, or the most experienced, the best chance of making it to the top.
(9) Along with an interactive diorama-style Everest that lets you peer into all its nooks and crevasses, there are also interactive areas at famous parts of the climb.
(10) I was responsible for the appalling daily press conferences during that election, when all the press sought was a wafer of difference between the two: they often found a crevasse, even between those similar parties.
(11) Nepal quake: Everest base camp 'looked like it had been flattened by bomb' Read more These are the icefall doctors, a team of elite local guides charged with securing a route to allow largely foreign climbers to pass safely through the maze of deep crevasses and frozen cliffs formed as the Khumbu glacier moves down from Mount Everest towards the valleys below in Nepal.
(12) The avalanche struck a perilous passage called the Khumbu Icefall, which is riddled with crevasses and piled with serac – huge chunks of ice – that can break free without warning.
(13) In other words, having slowly dug itself down to the bottom of a hole, the entire economy then fell into a crevasse.
(14) Epithelial junctions demonstrated furrows, clefts or deep crevasses, with exudates containing a large number of leukocytes.
(15) It is suggested that these processes combine to form a system of helical cracks, grooves, or crevasses.
(16) But this stretch feels like real adventure, crossing the snowy glacier, avoiding crevasses, seeing one of the most astonishing mountain panoramas in the world: Monte Rosa, Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, Breithorn and hundreds more peaks surround us.
(17) According to reports from climbers at Everest base camp three helicopters were running shuttles into the camps in the Western Cwm above the ice fall – a jumble of ice cliffs and crevasses - where the usual climbing route, equipped with ropes and ladders, was badly damaged by Saturday’s earthquake.
(18) If you reach that point in spite of reluctant soldiers and eager terrorists, it might be physically impossible to get on to the glacier, which will be extremely crevassed and dangerous.
(19) During her time there, she did no harm to her image by abseiling down a crevasse while on a foreign office trip to Antarctica.
(20) "We were running with no ropes on and there are a ton of huge crevasses there.
Fissure
Definition:
(n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.
(v. t.) To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
(2) The results are discussed in terms of both electrical and magnetic models of the calcarine fissure.
(3) Duane's retraction syndrome is a congenital eye movement disorder characterized by a deficiency of abduction, mild limitation of adduction, with retraction and narrowing of the palpebral fissure on attempted adduction.
(4) About 40% of all cysts were located along the midline, the sylvian fissure representing the predominant location.
(5) A propensity for elevated shear in the deep cartilage layer near the contact periphery, observed in nearly all computed stress distributions, is consistent with previous experimental findings of fissuring at that level in the impulsively loaded rabbit knee.
(6) The club captain, whose return had been delayed due to his participation at Euro 2012 with Holland, underwent his medical assessment and he and the manager sought to put a professional front on what has been a deep fissure in their relationship.
(7) The supratentorial part of the brain was extremely small, consisting of an irregularly lobulated mass about 3cm in diameter and without any median fissure or ventricular cavity.
(8) Correlation with high-resolution computed tomography in two patients indicated that this opacity represented a sagittal orientation of the anterior minor fissure, with resultant inferomedial curving of the right upper lobe of the lung along the right border of the heart.
(9) 19% of patients also suffered from chronic anal fissure which were treated by internal lateral sphincterotomy.
(10) Decreased colonization by S. mutans was found in the dental plaque collected from smooth surfaces and fissures and in saliva of subjects whose teeth were treated with the MAb, as compared with the saline-treated control subjects.
(11) Palpebral fissures are narrow with bilateral epicanthal folds, and the nasal bridge is hypoplasitc.
(12) The severity of fissured tongue changed with increasing age.
(13) Nodes were not found between the portal vein, hepatic artery and bile ducts in the fissures.
(14) For the experimental studies, fractures of the jaw bone in terms of oblique osteotomies from angle to sigmoid notch of the mandible of the Malaysian monkeys were made by using #700 fissure bur and reduced and fixed them in terms of interosseous wiring.
(15) An induction of TGF beta 1 mRNA was also observed in endothelial cells of the meninges, hippocampal fissure and choroid plexus, at 2 and 3 days.
(16) Following lobectomy of the right upper lobe of the lung, a single fissure, the neofissure, separates the right middle and lower lobes.
(17) This article outlines the authors' perceptions of the future of esthetic dental restorative materials such as composites, glass ionomer cements, pit and fissure sealants and laboratory fabricated resin.
(18) His achilles heel would be reconciling disparate sections of the grassroots party and restoring the fissures in the parliamentary party.
(19) We evaluated fissural (ie, visceral pleural) thickening on radiographs in two asbestos-exposed study populations and a control group.
(20) The purpose of this report is to document the current status of the teaching of pit and fissure sealants in British dental schools.