(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.
Ravine
Definition:
(n.) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
(v. t. & i.) See Raven, v. t. & i.
(n.) A torrent of water.
(n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.
Example Sentences:
(1) Winning tip: Hackfall Wood, North Yorkshire Hackfall Wood is deep in a ravine with a churning river at the bottom.
(2) In Sleipner and Snohvit, Statoil built two gas plants which funnelled high content CO2 into a sub-sea ravine.
(3) A variety of cartilage lesions was encountered: macroscopically apparent ' parallel linear' minimal fibrillation; other patterns of minimal fibrillation; 'ravines'; overt fibrillation; localized incomplete defects of the cartilage; and full-thickness cartilage loss with bone exposure.
(4) His sighting would be just one of several things to go wrong at Chavez Ravine tonight.
(5) Lower in altitude than the better-known Tatras to the north-east, it has rock towers, needles, windows and gates separated by deep waterless gorges and ravines.
(6) This origin is associated with an opening of the earth as is illustrated in the earthquakes or the volcanic eruptions forming the prototype of a fright experience leading to espanto; or, it is attributed to agents who inhabit locations where the earth presents a fissure (river, ravine, cave).
(7) Dennis Eckersley was on the hill for the Oakland A's against Gibson's Los Angeles Dodgers in Game One of the 1988 World Series at Chavez Ravine.
(8) The Botanic Gardens , though largely outdoors, are home to the Palm House and the Tropical Ravine, two large buildings filled with rare and extraordinary plants.
(9) In some instances the general articular surface developed superficial fissures, deep ravines, and foci of fibrillation.
(10) The Dodgers are within a victory of tying this NLCS at 2-2 after an enormous victory at Chavez Ravine tonight!
(11) When he was killed, in a firefight at twilight in an Afghan ravine, the White House called him an "inspiration".
(12) Founded in 1996, the movement’s aim is the creation of an Islamic government in the Ferghana Valley, a ravine running between Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
(13) More than 15,000 refugees have fled the area for Arsal over the past week as Assad loyalists attempt to clear opposition groups, backed by global jihadists, from mountains and ravines standing between Damascus and a contiguous link to Homs to the north-west.
(14) Jang was quoted as saying that his corps would annihilate its enemies and "turn each ravine into their death pitfall when the hour of decisive battle comes".
(15) When news emerged that people were dying from hunger and thirst, and teenage girls were jumping to their deaths down ravines to avoid rape or capture, Dakhil stood up in Iraq’s parliament to beg for intervention.
(16) On the edge of a steep ravine, the small museum will draw fans of architecture, as well as general tourists, when it opens in September.
(17) Twenty years ago, the journey was as much as an eight-hour drive, depending on the rains and on whether, as seemed to happen most days, a bus or lorry was stuck in the deep muddy ravines that opened up on what could only be loosely described as a road.
(18) The Dodgers could do something, anything, with their giant pool of money – I'm sure they could even find a way to lure Babe Ruth out of retirement, such are the funds over at Chavez Ravine.
(19) On the basis of clinico-genealogical investigation of the population of some small villages in the ravine Bartang--the isolate in high-montane region--the following indices of frequency of some psychiatric disorders were determined: olygophrenia--3,96; epilepsy--5,09; schizophrenia--6,78 for a 1000 of population.
(20) At the later stage the contact sites extended to the bottom of the ravine formed by the two nasal processes, where the superficial cells always seemed to bridge the area between the nasal processes.