(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.
Interstice
Definition:
(n.) That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall.
(n.) An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between the reception of the various degrees of orders.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both materials elicited a surrounding inflammatory reaction containing macrophages which transgressed the interstices of only the PGA prostheses.
(2) The acellular vesicles are formed from excess nuclear and plasma membranes produced during spermatid condensation, and the ECM is topologically restricted to the interstices between acellular vesicles and sperm heads, being absent from the flagellar surface.
(3) The effluent water and solutes appear in the form of lymph in the interstices between cells.
(4) The influence on healing of three materials for closure of interstices in a macroporous Dacron arterial prosthesis were evaluated by 56-day implantation in the canine descending thoracic aorta.
(5) The potential consequences of vascular damage are described as well as the importance of pancreatic lymphatics in the transport of the escaped enzymes from the interstices.
(6) It was also suggested that the interstices of the collagen fibers in the myocardial wall constituted the lymphatic ducts outside the blood vessels and that the MAO activity in serum determined by the method in which tryptamine hydrochloride was used as substrate might indicate the grade of fibrosis of the myocardial tissue in the infarcted areas.
(7) Mesh interstices epithelialized over the surface of the full-thickness wound (control sites) or over the surface of Dermagraft (experimental sites).
(8) The interstices G1, G3 and G4 seem to contain glycoproteins, whereas interstice G3 seems to contain some type of carbohydrate.
(9) Liquid in these interstices could amplify the degree of luminal compromise due to muscular contraction in at least two distinct ways.
(10) Finally, most frequently in 10- to 12-cell embryos, typical nucleolar structure is established as a result of intranucleolar differentiation giving rise to distinct fibrillar and granular components as well as to nucleolar interstices.
(11) Examination of the posterior or inner wall of this canal, represented by the sclerocorneal trabecula, in 15 species of primates and 5 adult humans, has enabled us to observe the existence of some small orifices or stomata that are the outermost part of the so-called Sondermann's canals, which in our opinion are made by the successive confluence of the interstices worked in the interior of the sclerocorneal trabecula by means of contraction of the longitudinal portion of the ciliary muscle.
(12) Small pockets of gas, known as gas nuclei, are trapped within surface interstices.
(13) The unproven hypothesis that ankle pain may result from compression of the marrow contents into the bone interstices is presented for consideration.
(14) In grade 1 injury the testicular parenchyma shows edema of interstice, slight blood extravasation and a desquamation of the germ cells.
(15) In the entorhinal area, the superficial cortical layers (I-III) contained most enzyme activity in the superficial two-thirds of layer I, the interstices between the stellate cell bodies in layer II, and the superficial part of layer III.
(16) "Fronds," characterized by contrast within the interstices of the lesion, were seen in three malignant lesions.
(17) The alveolar subepithelial basement membrane were markedly thickened and bundles of collagen fibres were formed in the interstice.
(18) Evidence of continuous basement membrane formation at the epithelial-Dermagraft junction, which was identified by immunohistochemical staining for laminin and type IV collagen, was seen by day 14 beneath the healed epithelium in the skin graft interstices.
(19) Deposition and activation of these enzymes in the interstices presumably is associated with the transformation of lamellar body-derived lipids from a relatively polar to a non-polar mixture, as well as the degradation of other non-lipid intercellular substrates.
(20) This morphological maturation involved the gradual transformation from relatively compact nucleoli to reticulate ones which exhibited a typical nucleolonemal configuration with numerous nucleolar interstices and fibrillar centers.