contrafissure
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]contrafissure (plural contrafissures)
- (medicine) A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.
- Synonym: counterfissure
- 1815, James Smith, The Panorama of Science and Art:
- When the professor's body was opened the next day , the cranium was very entire , having neither fissure nor contrafissure
References
[edit]- “contrafissure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.