contrafissure

noun

Etymology

From contra- + fissure.

  1. derived from fissūra
  2. derived from fissure
  3. inherited from fissure
  4. prefixed as contrafissure — “contra + fissure

Definitions

  1. A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some…

    A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.

    • When the professor's body was opened the next day , the cranium was very entire , having neither fissure nor contrafissure

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for contrafissure. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA