schisis
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek σχίσις (skhísis). A modern coinage used in medicine.
Noun edit
schisis (plural schises)
- (medicine) separation, cleft
- 2011, Elias I. Traboulsi, editor, Genetic Diseases of the Eye, 2nd edition, page 137:
- In patients with associated maculopathy, OCT demonstrates a retinal detachment with a typical convex schisis of the outer retinal layer in most patients.
Usage notes edit
- The word schisis may also combine with an anatomical prefix to denote a particular sort of clefting.
- palatoschisis (“cleft of the palate”)
- gastroschisis