contrafissure
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.