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How to use fissure in a sentence

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One fissure will ruin the labor of years, and one fissure may be produced by the slip of one gawkish moving man.
Its superstructure began to fissure and crack apart from the concentrated barrages.
Within a few years, this class fissure helped to crack apart American solidarity.
Suction occurs when there is a hole or fissure in the dam wall on the upstream side, and it means death for divers.
A foramen may be present in the petrobasilar fissure in front of the jugular foramen through which runs the inferior petrosal sinus.
He found himself following a main fissure down through the rock, the only one wide enough to admit him.
This vicious cycle forces the fissure open and prevents healing, which in turn exacerbates the sphincter hypertonicity.
Persistent elevation in sphincter tone requires more forceful evacuation of stool, resulting in repeated trauma to the fissure.
It is attached superiorly to the spine of the sphenoid and the region of the petrotympanic fissure.
The stream of superheated water escaping from the fissure was suddenly growing larger and was now headed straight for them.
The ophthalmic artery may have a separate foramen located between the optic foramen and the superior orbital fissure.
The challenge was to abseil through a vertical fissure, with lights off, into a large underground cavern.
Numerous fissure veins and fracture planes were present that contained brittle arsenical copper and chalcocite.
The zygomatic bone may or may not, with equal frequency, participate in forming the inferior orbital fissure.
The inferior surfaces of the frontal lobes are separated from those of the temporal lobes by the lateral fissure.
The lips of the choroidal fissure, containing the hyaloid vessels, are fused or nearly so.
Passing through a massive fissure in the rock, you enter a canyon that runs through to open water.
I accept the evidence of Mr. Pearson and Mr. Glendon with respect to their observations of the crack or split or fissure in the tubing.
A chest radiograph shows right pleural wall thickening following the contour of the minor fissure consistent with right pleural effusion.
It can be found in fissure veins and brecciated amygdaloidal basalt lodes but not in the conglomerate lodes.
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Anteroventrally the sphenoidal fissure is bounded by the orbitosphenoid bone, and dorsolaterally by the alisphenoid bone.
Then the rain ceased and Vic knew they had slidden down into a rock-covered fissure, that they were getting underground.
It is useful in some cases of blepharospasm associated with fissure at the outer canthus.
The lesion is one of the left occipital cortex in the cuneate lobe and the neighbourhood of the calcarine fissure.
Such a loss agrees with a lesion involving the upper part of the cuneate lobe above the calcarine fissure.
The calcarine fissure passed completely across the gyrus frontitatus on both sides in two cases, on one side in four cases.
The palpebral fissure was normal in size and there was little, if any, diminution in strength of the right radial pulse.
With reference to the choroid fissure we may state that its behaviour varies somewhat in the different types.
The palpebral fissure is smaller than its fellow, and the eyeball sinks into the orbit.
In such cases the palpebral fissure should be enlarged by dividing the outer canthus.
Stealing along the battlements, he sought for some fissure in which he might plant his lathi.
The grahamite fills the open fissure in the sandstone, and was plainly introduced when in a liquid state.
A slight prominence and a fissure was discovered in the temporal bone, and over this a trephine was applied.
Dorsally, the fissure bifurcates, embracing the gyre indented by the caudal limb of the paracentral.
She peered into the shadowy gulf, but could not see the bottom of the fissure.
From his position he could see about all there was to be seen in the fissure.
Some fissure veins of fluorite in limestone in southern Illinois are twenty to forty feet wide.
The hippocampal fissure persists with little modification all through the mammalian class.
There are three or four gyri disposed round each other, of which the lowest surrounds the Sylvian fissure.
In many of these cases the fissure will heal spontaneously when the malposition is rectified.
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