contrafissure

noun

contrafissure

noun

Etymology From contra- + fissure.

1

Medicine, Sciences 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 contrafissure1815, James Smith, The Panorama of Science and Art:

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