What's the difference between fissure and hiatus?

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.

Hiatus


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Hiatus
  • (n.) An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.
  • (n.) The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
  • (2) A hernial sac originating from the peritoneum near the oesophagogastric junction contained the midgut which had herniated through the oesophageal hiatus.
  • (3) Only the rats with a 30-min hiatus between the 15- and 25-min bouts of RAO had significantly worse renal failure than controls subjected to a single 25-min ischemic event.
  • (4) In the paper, the authors stress the importance of the phreno-esophageal membrane in the gastro-esophageal closing mechanism and the necessity of reproducing its continuity during surgery of some sliding esophageal hiatus hernia.
  • (5) The two forks of the GIA or the PLC 50 instrument are introduced into the oesophagus and jejunum, and the two organs are brought together at the hiatus.
  • (6) Abrams currently has the production on a two-week hiatus to allow Ford to recover from a broken leg sustained on set.
  • (7) That hiatus officially ended after two weeks, but withdrawing dollars remained slow.
  • (8) These findings are reviewed in relation to the development of the diaphragm and it is suggested that inadequate muscle differentiation in the primative mesenchyme contributes both to the occurrence of congenital oesophageal hiatus hernia and nonrotation of the midgut.
  • (9) Reznor's reimagining of Nine Inch Nails follows a four-year hiatus , during which he mostly worked on film scores.
  • (10) Most of these functional disorders were of benign nature, including simple or complicated reflux disease of the oesophagus, achalasia of the cardia, para-oesophageal and mixed hiatus hernia, and diverticulum.
  • (11) Failures were caused by esophageal stricture, respiratory distress, and hiatus hernia.
  • (12) Hiatus hernia is a common condition and while medical treatment is often sufficient, in some cases surgery may be necessary.
  • (13) Eight days after the repair he developed vomiting and hiatus hernia was revealed by barium esophagram.
  • (14) The injection into the extradural space through the hiatus sacralis always included the mixture of lidocaine with bupivacaine to speed up the beginning of the operation.
  • (15) Ali and Frazier were both undefeated, Ali had been on a forced hiatus for three-and-a-half years [for refusing to be drafted to Vietnam] and while he was gone Joe became what we knew as the undisputed heavyweight champion.
  • (16) Reduction in size of the esophageal hiatus, fixation of the esophagus to the diaphragmatic crus (esophagopexy), and a left fundic gastropexy were performed.
  • (17) A-79-year old man, treated by thoracic fundoplication for hiatus hernia with symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux, 12 years previously, was examined for persistent cough and left basal pneumonia.
  • (18) Earlier in April, Air France, which recently resumed flights to Tehran after an eight-year hiatus, said its female cabin crew can refuse flights to Iran after protests by a number of the crew members over the compulsory hijab.
  • (19) The solutions help to fill a hiatus that exists between crystalloids and blood products.
  • (20) This represents a substantial improvement in comparison to the old generation of adhesives which allowed hiatuses of 10 to 50 micrometers to show.