contrafissure

English

Etymology

contra- +‎ fissure

Noun

contrafissure (plural contrafissures)

  1. (medicine) A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for contrafissure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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